Kibana
Kibana
Kibana
Lesson 3 Recap
Elasticsearch and Kibana
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About Elasticsearch
About Elasticsearch
➢ A big data storing tool; a NoSQL database
➢ In general – store and index documents
➢ In UiPath Orchestrator – store messages logged by the robots
Uses of Elasticsearch
➢ Search for a word or a phrase in the message,
➢ Apply search criteria to any field that is indexed – log level, username, robot name, process name
➢ Create charts and put them in dashboards (using Kibana)
Place of Elasticsearch
Orchestrator uses the NLog library Elasticsearch is a custom Worst case: write messages into a
to collect messages from the target, using an extension (a flat file (text) and use a log
robots and redirect them to one or bridge) collector to transfer them
more targets
Installation of Elasticsearch
Run AddMessageToElasticsearch PowerShell script to force the creation of the first index
Create new
visualizations,
export and share the
existing ones Visualizations are analytical
ways of presenting data
stored in Elasticsearch
Dashboard
A dashboard is a Examine Default Watch the Kibana Export / import of Warning: custom
collection of dashboards tutorials to learn visualizations and fields
visualizations on the useful information dashboards
same page from Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch – backup, snapshots
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