I'm trying to summarize some data in kibana. If writing in Splunk it would be something like index=network_data stats count by log_type and output would like discrete values in the log_type field. How can I do this in kibana?
Yes, is there any way to natively query or do I need to built visualizations each time?
That is a native query, we do things a little different than Splunk 
Otherwise you can look at something like Timelion, but the method above is the best one.
Yes thanks I'll work on building out visualizations