Kibanr
kibanr
was born of a need to understand how users interact with the Atlas of Living Australia (APIs). The most useful data comes from NGINX logs, which, using the ELK stack, are parsed and visualised in Kibana. The high volume of logs means that raw logs are kept for less than 3 months. To understand usage trends over time, there was therefore a need to pull summary statistics from Kibana on a monthly basis. Using R to pull the data was an interesting challenge, given the requests and responses are in JSON
, and python
would probably have been an easier choice.