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Working with Kibana, the first time
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Kibana with nginx logs

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!

  1. Cloning sample dataset for quick views is easy.
  2. Importing data files into Kibana is a breeze.
  3. 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.

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