Installing Kibana on Manjaro

Kibana is an open-source data visualization and exploration tool designed to work with Elasticsearch. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Kibana on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

  • Manjaro Linux
  • Java 8 or above installed on your Manjaro system
  • Elasticsearch installed and running on your system

Step-by-step installation

  1. Download Kibana package from the official website based on your system configuration. For Manjaro 64-bit, use the following command to download the package:
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.14.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
  1. Next, extract the downloaded package using the following command:
tar -xvzf kibana-7.14.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
  1. Now, change into the extracted package directory:
cd kibana-7.14.0-linux-x86_64
  1. Open the config/kibana.yml file in your favorite text editor and update the following configuration option:
# Default Kibana configuration for Manjaro
server.port: 5601
server.host: "localhost"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

  1. Save the kibana.yml configuration file and exit the text editor.

  2. Start the Kibana service using the following command:

bin/kibana
  1. Once the service is started, you can access the Kibana dashboard by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:5601.

Congratulations! You have now installed Kibana on your Manjaro system, and you can start exploring your Elasticsearch data with the help of the powerful data visualization and exploration features of Kibana.