What is Elastic and Kibana ?

Elasticsearch is a distributed RESTful data search and analysis engine capable of serving a growing number of use cases.
Kibana is a free and open user interface for you to view your Elasticsearch data and browse the Elastic Stack.

How can I start?

Jus execute the command bellow to run the containers.

$ docker-compose -f "ElasticKibana/ek-docker-compose.yml" up -d

Now you can access the default host:port http://localhost:5601/ to access the dashboard.

You can use the dev tools to query using Kibana Query Language

Examples:

GET _cat/indices

GET indexname/_search

GET _search
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "_index": "indexname"
    }
  }
}

GET indexname/_doc/id