[Recipes] Getting Familiar with Kibana and DevTools (Elastic Cloud)

1. Login to Kibana dashboard URL (URL from your Elastic Cloud account)

2. Once you login you should see a message on top as:

   1. X-Pack is installed. Sharing your cluster statistics with us helps us improve. Your data is never shared with anyone. Not interested? Opt out here. You may dismiss this message. 

   2. Explore various options (screenshots attached in the end.)

3. Click on DevTools on left.

4. Dev Tools will give you some welcome message including some instructions:

   1. The Console UI is split into two panes: an editor pane (left) and a response pane (right). Use the editor to type requests and submit them to Elasticsearch. The results will be displayed in the response pane on the right side.

   2. While typing a request, Console will make suggestions which you can then accept by hitting Enter/Tab. These suggestions are made based on the request structure as well as your indices and types.

   3. Submit requests to ES using the green triangle button.

   4. Use the wrench menu for other useful things.

   5. You can paste requests in cURL format and they will be translated to the Console syntax.

   6. You can resize the editor and output panes by dragging the separator between them.

   7. Study the keyboard shortcuts under the Help button. Good stuff in there!

5. Read all tips and click on "Get To Work".

6. You should see a default _search query.

   1. GET _search
      {
        "query": {
          "match_all": {}
        }
      }

7. Click the execute button and explore the response. You may not understand most of it, but should be clearer once you go along with the notes.

Screenshots of different areas at Kibana homepage