cannot replicate kibana exercise

[andell-mohan]

Hi there,
enjoying the book so far and the style of writing.

One issue that happened for me in the chapter "logging" on page 45 , the instructions to view the logs on Kibana state that one should
go to kibana and click "Vizualize & analyze": and then click "Discover". However the option of "discover" is not clickable for me, only a blue button named "Add you data" is available.

My set up until this point was the following:

• clone repo https://github.com/MatthewJamesBoyle/logging-module/tree/main
• run podman compose up
• visit http://localhost:5601
• visit http://localhost:9200 (which looks like the attachment localhost9200 I provided)
• run a bunch of curl commands producing a mixture of both success and failure responses
• revisting kibana at http://localhost:5601

Am I missing something here? Help to get this resolved would be greatly appreciated.

[y3933y3933]

Hi @andell-mohan,
I ran into the same issue and fixed it by creating a Data View (Index Pattern) in Kibana. Here are the exact steps I followed:

1. Open Kibana at http://localhost:5601, wait until it’s fully ready.
2. Go to Stack Management → Data Views (or “Index Patterns” depending on your Kibana version).
3. Click “Create data view.”
4. Set the Name to match your indices => logs-*.
5. Choose the time field => time
6. Click “Save data view.”

After doing this, Discover became clickable and my logs appeared.