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Settings
The settings application is broken up into three pages: Indices, Advanced, and Object.
Indices
The Indices page manages Index Patterns. Before you can do anything in Kibana you will need to create an Index Pattern, and it will follow you throughout all of the other apps. Index Patterns represent one or more indices in Elasticsearch and track associated meta-data, like field types and pattern interval.
Index Contains Time-Based Events
what does this checkbox mean/do?
Use Event Times to Create Index Names
what does this checkbox mean/do?
Index Pattern Interval
...explain what the list of indexes that are shown means, and blue vs green color
Time-Field Name
what's this do, why's it important?
Advanced
Please, use caution on this page, because the advanced editor will let you break things.
The Advanced page allows modification of individual configuration parameters. Each of these parameters can be tweaked to customize the entire Kibana installation. This means that your changes will apply to all users. This could prevent the application from loading if used incorrectly.
Edit
Save
Delete
Objects
Please, use caution on this page, because the advanced editor will let you break things.
The Objects page manages all of the objects created by Kibana (except Index Patterns which are handled by the Indices page). Today, that includes Dashboards, Visualizations, and Searches (created by the Discover app).
Most apps give you all the tools needed to manage objects they create, but if/when they fall short, you can come here to tweak the specifics.
View
Clicking on the View action loads that item in the associated applications. Refer to the documentation for the associated applications if you need help using them.
Edit
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