Discover your data

Once you have created the index pattern in Kibana, your Elasticsearch data can be accessed from Kibana directly. So once the data is available, we can explore it using the different options of Kibana Discover. The following screen appears when we first click on Discover from the left menu in Kibana:

In the preceding screenshot, you can see the histogram, which shows the date against the timestamp when the records get added. It shows @timestamp per day on the x axis and Count on the y axis. Under the histogram, we have the actual data, which is shown with Time and the _source field. There are different things we can do here ...

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