# Log visualizing in kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 29, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470 "2017-03-29T11:33:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![emilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@emilio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilio)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/1 "2017-03-29T11:33:46Z")
Dear all, I need your advice regarding to log visualizing in kibana. Which kind of visualizing of logs in time-based index should be useful and nice? Thank you in advance ---
**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/2 "2017-03-29T12:13:50Z")
really depends what kind of logs and what kind of insight are you trying to get out, but you could always try with vertical bar chart. ---
**Author:** ![emilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@emilio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilio)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/3 "2017-03-29T12:34:25Z")
These are application logs. Our goal is to have opportunity to monitor applications' health state and to have centralized log management host. I need some best practices regarding it or may be some standards. ---
**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/4 "2017-03-29T12:37:39Z")
you could show a dashboard with one visualization showing your errors split by different error types, another one split by application, split by user, .... ---
**Author:** ![emilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@emilio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilio)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/5 "2017-03-29T13:27:29Z")
Brilliant! This suggestion is very useful for me. It is really what i need. 🙂 Thank you very much, Peter. ---
**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/6 "2017-03-29T13:28:52Z")
glad i was able to help. ---
**Author:** ![emilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@emilio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilio)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/7 "2017-03-29T13:41:25Z")
It will be appreciated if you can advice some useful use cases, Peter. I am new in RELK, so haven't enough practice and experience. ---
**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/8 "2017-03-29T14:06:30Z")
i would suggest you to watch some videos here: [https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2017/sf](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2017/sf) and here [https://www.elastic.co/videos](https://www.elastic.co/videos) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-visualizing-in-kibana/80470/9 "2017-04-26T14:06:42Z")
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