Hi Brian - There is currently no centralized repository for these types of examples and templates. For now, your best bet is to Google for what you want and see what is available in the community. Many folks expose sample configurations in their blogs or Github repositories.
A couple of things to watch out for, as you search:
- At the moment, a lot of examples are Kibana3-centric, and that dashboard format is not compatible with Kibana 4.
- Any dashboard you find with the community will be tied to specific field names and types indexed in Elasticsearch, so you'll need to obtain the Logstash config they used and also their Elasticsearch index template, if they changed it from the default.
- Your log file format needs to be the same as anticipated by the Logstash config above - if you made changes to your log configuration to produce logs of different format than the default, you'll likely need to adjust your grok pattern in Logstash config.
- Kibana 4 json export does not include the index pattern on top of which you defined the dashboard, so you'll need to add that manually.
- There are probably some other gotchas I forgot
I went ahead and exported my Logstash config and a sample Kibana 4 dashboard based on Apache2 logs for you to try. To use these files:
- Make sure ELK stack is installed per Getting Started docs online
- Make sure you are using the same or similar Logstash config in your setup, so that you have the same fields available in Elasticsearch
- Make sure your Apache log format is of the same format as this sample file
- Manually configure the index pattern in Kibana to be [logstash-]YYYY.MM.DD
- Import the sample Kibana dashboard in Kibana 4 Settings >> Object page
Let me know if this works for you!