Practitioner Level

Creating Markdown Visualizations in Kibana 7.6

30 minutes

3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

Markdown is a really powerful and intuitive way to create formatted text. In Kibana, we can use Markdown visualizations to add descriptive text to dashboards or reports. So, in this hands-on lab, we will do just that.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Create and Save the Welcome Visualization

Create a new Markdown visualization.
Enter the Markdown provided in the instructions.
Save the visualization as "Welcome."

Create and Save the Helpful Links Visualization

Create a new Markdown visualization.
Enter the Markdown provided in the instructions.
Save the visualization as "Helpful Links."

Create and Save the Contact Information Visualization

Create a new Markdown visualization.
Enter the Markdown provided in the instructions.
Save the visualization as "Contact Information."

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Additional Resources

You work as an engineer on the data infrastructure team for a large company. Your team is about to launch an Elastic Stack to be used by the organization for business data analysis. To help with the introduction of this new technology, you need to create several Markdown visualizations that can be used on an introductory dashboard. The Markdown visualizations are as follows:

Welcome

# Welcome to Kibana!

This dashboard will provide some basic tutorial information and documentation links to get you up and running with Kibana.

Helpful Links

### Helpful Links:

* [What is Kibana?](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.6/introduction.html)
* [Searching Data](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.6/search.html)
* [Filtering Data](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.6/field-filter.html)

Contact Information

### Contact Information:

For data integration requests, please reach out to <data_infrastructure@company.com>.

For all other requests, please contact <helpdesk@company.com>.

Your lab node has a Kibana instance, which can be accessed in your local web browser by navigating to the public IP address of the lab node over port 8080 (example: http://public_ip:8080). To log in, use the elastic user with the password elastic_acg.

What are Hands-on Labs

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