Act 3:
Building some Dashboards

Step 1

Introduction

We'll create a set of dashboards using Kibana.
The first thing we'll do is to enable searching over the CTR, Transcriptions, and Key Phrases/entites:


Then we'll create a set of visualizations


And finally we'll create a dashboard

Step 2

Connecting into Kibana

  1. Go to the Cloudformation Templates console
  2. Select the cloudformation script from this lab
  3. Go to the outputs to find the kibana link, username, and temp password:
  4. Log in using the temp credentials
  5. It will have you automatically change the password
  6. Select "Management"
  7. Select "Index Patterns"
  8. Type in "reinvent-2018-workshop" and select "next"
  9. Select the LastUpdateTimestamp and select create

Step 3

Querying the data

In this section, we'll step you through how to start querying your records..


  1. On the Left hand side, Select "Discover"
  2. Expand the search window in the top right hand corner
  3. Search for key terms that you used during the calls you made in the previous Act.

Step 4

Building Visualizations

In this section, we'll step you through how to start visualizing the data..


  1. On the Left hand side, Select "Visualize"
  2. Create the various visuals

Step 5

Building a dashboard

In this section, we'll step you through how to build a dashboard from the various visualizations..


  1. On the Left hand side, Select "Dashboard"
  2. Add the visualizations that you created in the previous section