I wanted to explore Kibana to analyze nginx logs. Finding the right place to work with data seemed unnecessarily complex.
I had to visit Visualization under Machine Learning to upload a file!
- Cloning sample dataset for quick views is easy.
- Importing data files into Kibana is a breeze.
- We capture timestamp in nginx logs. But Kibana seemed to have trouble recognizing it and picking a right timestamp format.
My input file had timestamps formatted as 1594687055727.0
resulting in Kibana making it a double type instead of integer. After trying few formats (which didn't work) I re-formatted the column as an integer. Kibana then picked it up as a UNIX_MS
.