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Is it possible to query for a distinct/unique count of a field using Kibana? I am using elastic search as my backend to Kibana.
If so, what is the syntax of the query? Heres a link to the Kibana interface I would like to make my query: http://demo.kibana.org/#/dashboard
I am parsing nginx access logs with logstash and storing the data into elastic search. Then, I use Kibana to run queries and visualize my data in charts. Specifically, I want to know the count of unique IP addresses for a specific time frame using Kibana.
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There's no support for distinct counting in ElasticSearch, although non-deterministic counting exists. Use "terms" aggregation and count buckets in result. See Count distinct on elastic search question.
Create "topN" query on "clientip" and then histogram with count on "clientip" and set "topN" query as source. Then you will see count of different ips per time.
To search for an exact string, you need to wrap the string in double quotation marks. Without quotation marks, the search in the example would match any documents containing one of the following words: "Cannot" OR "change" OR "the" OR "info" OR "a" OR "user".
For Kibana 4 go to this answer
This is easy to do with a terms panel:
If you want to select the count of distinct IP that are in your logs, you should specify in the field clientip, you should put a big enough number in length (otherwise, it will join different IP under the same group) and specify in the style table. After adding the panel, you will have a table with IP, and the count of that IP:
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