Add a Kibana 4 quick start / tutorial to the docs

[tbragin]

Kibana 3 quick start guide walks the user through getting some test data into Elasticsearch and visualizing it.
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/using-kibana-for-the-first-time.html

We should add a tutorial-style section to Kibana 4 docs that:

• Shows how to import some sample data
• Covers setting an index
• Using Discover to see search for a piece of data
• Using Visualize to build a sample chart
• Using Dashboard to create a dashboard and add a chart to it

[szeitlin]

can I vote this suggestion up? I've got sample data in elasticsearch, it's not from logstash, and a handful of clues would probably conserve a lot of momentum... I'm looking at the 'set a default index' and I'm not sure what to use. How do I confirm that elasticsearch and kibana are talking to each other? Stuff like that.

[rashidkpc]

@palecur any update here?

[szeitlin]

fwiw, I figured out two or three things that I needed to do, can maybe draft up a blog post on it? essentially these: a) use a mapping, b/c default ES indexing wasn't good enough, b) have multiple files to start with, b/c need enough counts to start seeing anything, c) finding variables in the kibana UI where I thought there were not any being identified (will include screenshots).

[jimmyjones2]

A few of the blogs have had great demo datasets in them, eg. https://www.elastic.co/blog/numeric-aggregations-an-exploration-of-uk-housing-data which is a great demo of the tilemap, amongst other things.

[szeitlin]

That's a good point, any data set that isn't logstash would work for demonstrating the workflow and viewing what variables are being identified. The existing demos all start from 'you already have this very mature project and look here are some visualizations'.

[palecur]

Tutorial has been added to the 4.1 documentation PR, #3813, but that tilemap data set looks pretty choice and I'll try to add a demo visualization based on it, since the tutorial covers pie/bar charts just now. 'one of every chart type' is a bit out of scope for a basic tutorial but tilemaps are different enough from all the other types that they deserve a bit of focus.