Elastic Certified Analyst Preparation Details
The Elastic Certified Analyst exam validates your Kibana skills in searching, visualizing, and analyzing Elasticsearch data. This study guide maps every exam objective to official Elastic documentation so you can prepare efficiently. You can also explore more Elastic certification study guides on the Elastic category to keep building your skills.
Elastic Certified Analyst Materials
| Coursera | Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis |
| Udemy | Kibana Expert: Master Data Visualization |
Searching Data
Define a data view with or without a Time Filter field
Set the time filter to a specified date or time range
Use Kibana Query Language (KQL) to display only documents that match a specified criteria
Create and pin a filter based on a search criteria
Apply a search criteria to a visualization or dashboard
Create a dashboard from the Kibana UI
Visualizing Data
Create a visualization that displays pipeline aggregations (eg moving average) or custom formulas (eg filter ratio)
Customize the format and colors of a Lens visualization
Create maps satisfying a given criteria
Build a map to compare metrics by country or region
Create a table using Lens with columns, conditional coloring, and summary rows
Create a Dashboard with visualization panels
Create a dashboard from the Kibana UI
Define and use spaces in Kibana
Select and switch Kibana spaces
Create permalink to share dashboards
Create interactive dashboards with input controls, text, and drilldowns
Add Options list and Range slider controls to dashboards
Use Discover to save searches and add a document table to a dashboard
Save a Discover session for reuse
Create Lens visualization with layers
Create Lens visualization of a specified visualization type
Add reference lines and annotations to a Lens visualization
Analyzing Data
Answer questions about a given dataset using search and visualizations
Use Machine Learning tools to detect anomalies in a dataset
Define a single metric, multi-metric, population, or categorization Anomaly Detection job
Define and use runtime fields
Explore your data with runtime fields
Define an alert using Kibana Alerts
Create and manage Kibana alerting rules
View and manage alerts from Kibana alerting rules
Create a data frame analytics job to detect outliers
Overview of data frame analytics with Elastic machine learning
Create a transform that generates an entity-centric index
Wrapping Up Elastic Certified Analyst
This guide covered every Searching Data, Visualizing Data, and Analyzing Data objective for the Elastic Certified Analyst exam, with official Elastic documentation for each skill. Practice each task hands-on in Kibana and you will be well prepared. You can also explore more Elastic certification study guides on the Elastic category to keep building your skills. Have a question or tip? Leave a comment below.
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