Uploading Data with the Data Visualizer in Elasticsearch 7.13

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Uploading Data with the Data Visualizer in Elasticsearch 7.13

The Elastic Stack really excels at continuously streaming data from countless sources into Elasticsearch. But sometimes, you just want to quickly ingest some data to analyze it ad hoc without having to set up a data processing pipeline for it. For this use case, we can use the data visualizer. In this hands-on lab, you will leverage the data visualizer to ingest some flat file data into Elasticsearch to be analyzed.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 21, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Download and Extract the `malicious_urls` Dataset
1. Download the malicious_urls.zip archive.
2. Extract the malicious_urls.csv file.
Challenge

Upload the `malicious_urls` Dataset to the Data Visualizer

From the Data Visualizer in Kibana, upload the malicious_urls.csv file.
Challenge

Configure and Import the `malicious_urls` Dataset
1. Import the dataset to the malicious_urls index.
2. The malicious_urls index should be configured with 1 primary and 0 replica shards in order to maintain a green cluster state.

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