Installing Kibana on Elementary OS

Kibana is a web application that provides UI for Elasticsearch, a search and analytics engine. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Kibana on Elementary OS.

Prerequisites

Before we start the installation process for Kibana, make sure that your Elementary OS system meets the following requirements:

• Operating System: Elementary OS Latest
• Minimum RAM: 2GB
• Disk Space: 500MB

Step 1: Download Kibana

Firstly, download the latest version of Kibana from the official website of Elastic.

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.15.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Step 2: Extract Kibana Archive

Once the downloading process is completed, extract the downloaded archive using the following command:

tar -zxvf kibana-7.15.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Step 3: Configure Kibana

Next, open the Kibana root directory and locate and edit the kibana.yml configuration file.

cd kibana-7.15.1-linux-x86_64/
nano config/kibana.yml

In the kibana.yml file, modify the server.host parameter's value to "0.0.0.0".

server.host: "0.0.0.0"

Save and exit the file.

Step 4: Start Kibana

After completing the configuration changes, start Kibana using the following command:

./bin/kibana

Step 5: Access Kibana in Web Browser

You can access Kibana by opening your web browser and navigating to http://<your server IP>:5601.

Note: If you're running Kibana on a local machine that you want to access through a web browser, use http://localhost:5601.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kibana on your Elementary OS system. Now you can use Kibana to interact with Elasticsearch and create visualizations to analyze data.