Setup

• Kibana is an open source product installed separately from Elastic Search

• Can be downloaded from Elastic.co or installed using Linux Repositories

• Configuration file: /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

• Important settings:

  server.port: 5601
  server.host: "0.0.0.0"
  elasticsearch.url: "http://localhost:9200"

• Additional settings are detailed here

• Kibana can be installed on the same nodes where Elastic Search is running, or on separate nodes

• Kibana stores its configuration data in ElasticSearch

• Accessing Kibana from browser: http://domain-name:5601