Kibana Visualizations Simplified With SearchBlox

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Prerequisites

SearchBlox 11.0+ running with OpenSearch 2.18
At least one collection with indexed data (documents, tweets, or web pages)
Admin access to the SearchBlox console

SearchBlox Kibana enables users to create, share, and embed visualizations and dashboards for any data type. It supports real-time data feeds from external applications as well as SearchBlox, allowing live tracking of hashtags, keywords, or database transactions.

Key Features

• Real-Time Data Tracking – Monitor live feeds from external sources or SearchBlox.
• Interactive Visualizations – Analyze and visualize indexed data for insights.
• Dashboard Embedding – Share and integrate dashboards seamlessly.

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To learn more about Kibana, visit https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/kibana/.

Step 1 – Start Kibana

Navigate to the Kibana binary directory:

Linux/macOS: /opt/searchblox/kibana/bin
Windows: C:\SearchBlox Server\kibana\bin

Execute the startup command:

Linux/macOS:

./kibana

Windows: Run kibana.bat

Step 2 – Access Kibana

Open your browser to http://localhost:5601.
It is also possible to configure Kibana on your IP or domain. The changes are to be made in
../kibana/config/kibana.yml
Please add the following line
server.host: 0.0.0.0
You can also give your IP as server host.

Step 3 - Login to Kibana

Accessing Kibana
Open a browser and navigate to:

http\://localhost:5601

Please give default Elasticsearch credentials,
Note: You can find the Elasticsearch login credentials in the searchblox.yml file, found in the following file path:

\SearchBloxServer\webapps\searchblox\WEB-INF\searchblox.yml

After logging in you would get the following page. Please click Explore on my own

Step 4 - Configure Index in Kibana

Click Management on the left-hand menu to configure your index. Click Index Patterns

Give the Index ID (For example Collection ID 1 = idx001) and click Next Step

Give Time filter field name such as indexdate or lastmodified, etc. and click Create index pattern

You would be able to view the index pattern with the fields as shown here

Step 3 – Create Visualization

In our documentation, we will show how to create few basic visualizations in Kibana
Click on the Visualize tab in menu to create a new visualization from the index.

Click Create Visualization, you would be able to view the available visualizations

You can select any visualization based on your requirement and data. For example here we will use pie chart

Step 4 – Visualize

After selecting the visualization, select the index.

Configure the aggregation type and the field for this aggregation. In our example, we have selected aggregation as terms and field as keywords and then click the play button on top for execution.

You can add subbuckets and generate visualization as shown here:

Selecting Time Range
Please make sure to select the time range in the top left corner of the page. Data will not be aggregated if the right time range is not selected as by default data from last 15 minutes will be the date range selected as shown here:

Explicitly select the date range in years or months based on your requirement

Dashboard
You can save the visualization and add it to the dashboard.

You can view the saved visualizations by clicking Visualization tab in menu

You can add these visualizations to dashboard

You can create multiple visualizations and add them to dashboard as shown here:

You can also save searches and display them along with visualisations in the dashboard as shown here.

Searching from Kibana
You can search from Kibana by going to menu -> Discover. You can search at various levels and fields in Discover mode.

You can save the search and use it in dashboard

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Please note that you will be able to use Kibana only with a paid server license.