Step 6: Loading Sample Kibana Dashboards

To make it easier for you to start monitoring your servers in Kibana, we have created a few sample dashboards. The dashboards are maintained in this GitHub repository, which also includes instructions for loading the dashboards.

For more information about loading and viewing the dashboards, see Visualizing Your Data in Kibana.

Topbeat statistics

These dashboards are provided as examples. We recommend that you customize them to meet your needs.

Example of a System-Wide Overview

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You can configure the Dashboard page to show the statistics for all servers or for a subset. For example, you might have a dashboard page that shows:

CPU usage and memory consumption for the top 10 CPU-consuming processes running on different servers
Free and used disk space for all servers
CPU usage per process
Memory consumption per process

Topbeat Dashboard page in Kibana

Example of a Per Server Overview

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To display the statistics coming from a single server, you can use a search query like beat.name: precise32:

Topbeat Dashboard page in Kibana for one server

You can learn more about Kibana in the Kibana User Guide.

Enjoy!

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