Sunday, July 18, 2021

Kibana Installation

Kibana is analytics, visualization and monitoring tool from Elastic stack. It will connect to Elastic search and analyze and visualize the data. Most of the organizations are using Kibana for applications log monitoring. We can build nice Dashboards in Kibana and configure alerts as well.

 

Software and Tools



 

Windows 10

Java 1.8 or higher

kibana-7.13.3

elasticsearch-7.13.3

 

 


Prerequisite



Install Elastic Search and Start Elastic Cluster

 

http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2021/07/install-elastic-search-cluster.html

 

 

Download and Extract


Go to elastic search download page and download Kibana as per your system configurations.

 

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana

 


Direct link as follows

 

https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.13.3-windows-x86_64.zip

 


Extract downloaded zip in local drive

 




 

 

Configure Kibana


Locate to Kibana conf directory and make sure elastic search cluster nodes.



Add/Update “kibana.yml” with elastic cluster nodes according to our elastic cluster installation.

 


 

# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200","http://localhost:9201","http://localhost:9202"]





Start Kibana


Open command prompt and locate to root directory of Kibana and use below command to start. Pass “kibana.yaml” file as startup --config option for kibata.bat.

 

 

 

bin\kibana.bat --config config\kibana.yml

 

 

 





 

 






Kibana will start on 5601 port and you can access Kibana with below URL. We can Kibana startup information in console logs.

 

 

http://localhost:5601/

 

 






 

 

 

Sample Data in Kibana


Click on Add Data button and navigate to Kibana home page and click on “Try Sample Data








 

We can add any sample data from given options. We can try Sample weblogs.

 

 





 

Once data is added, we can view the data. Click on view data and select Dashboard.

 





 

Sample Web logs data dashboard as follow




 

Reference

 

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/get-started.html

 



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