Install kibana manually

Step 1: Download

Download the Kibana package from:
https://www.elastic.co/download/kibana

Please note:

1. For kibana package, we need to download the same version with the ES instance which we want to connect.
   e.g.
   if we are using es 7.6.2 , we should download the kibana 7.6.2

2. For linux server, we don’t need jdk to startup kibana, it’s written by nodejs…

Step 2: unzip the package and rename

tar -xf kibana-7.6.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
mv kibana-7.6.2-linux-x86_64 kibana

Step 3: update the configuration file

cd kibana
vi ./config/kibana.yml

1. uncomment server.port: 5601
2. uncomment server.host: “localhost” and change it to server.host: “0.0.0.0”, otherwise we cannot connect it from another client/server.
3. uncomment and update the es host : elasticsearch.hosts: [“http://xxxxxxx:9200”]
   
   
   

Step 4: startup kibana

nohup ./bin/kibana&

How to get the process id of kibana.

due to kibana is written by nodejs, below command will not work

ps -ef | grep kibana

but we know it’s port number is 5601
so we could use netstat command to get the process id which is using port 5601

netstat -tunlp|grep 5601