How to install Kibana?

We will start with Introduction to Kibana and end post with Installing Kibana.

1. What is Kibana?

Kibana is a visualization dashboard for Elasticsearch and you can choose many available charts like graphs, pie, bar, histogram etc. or real time textual data and can gain meaningful analytics.

2. Installing Kibana

We can install Kibana from tar files or using package manager.

2.1. Installating Kibana directly from tar files

For Linux installation

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-6.2.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
shasum -a 512 kibana-6.2.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf kibana-6.2.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd kibana-6.2.3-linux-x86_64/

For Windows installation

//Dowload Kibana
https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-6.2.3-windows-x86_64.zip

//running kibana
/bin/kibana.bat

2.2. Installation from packages

Debian package installation

// Import elatic PGP key
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

//install https transport module
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

//save repository definition
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list

//installation command
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kibana

rpm package installation

//Download and install public signing key
rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Add the following in a new .repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

[kibana-6.x]
name=Kibana repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md
//Installation command
sudo yum install kibana
sudo dnf install kibana
sudo zypper install kibana


Tags: ELK stack, Configuring Kibana, Kibana, Setting up Kibana

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