Exploring my own Strava activities using Kibana (part 2): a better dashboard

Assumed audience: people interested in data exploration.

Please read the first part on this article about the Kibana setup and Strava data injection.

My colleague Franck gave me a cool Kibana tip: try the "vertical bar" with a "count" operator.

In order to give it a try, I created a dashboard with the following charts:

• "average speed histogram", using a Vertical bar chart: Y-axis is "average(average_speed)", X-axis is "@timestamp" and Split series on "type".

• "count activities by type", using a Metric chart, using Aggregation "Count" and Split group on "type".

• "distance histogram", using a Vertical bar chart: Y-axis is "average(distance)", X-axis is "@timestamp" and split series on "type".

• "activity type tree map", using a Treemap chart with Group by "type.

• "counts per day" using a Bar vertical chart with horizontal axis on "start_date", vertical axis on "Count of records" and break down by "top values of type".

Here is a preview of the final dashboard: 🎉

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The same dashboard when clicking on "Run" activity type:

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The dashboard with its charts can be imported via the upper left button / "Management" / "Stack Management" / "Saved Objects" / "Import" with this file.