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Kibana

Kibana is a visualization layer that works on top of Elasticsearch, providing users with the ability to analyze and visualize the data.

I. Install Kibana with Docker​

Kibana Configuration​

Create file kibana.yml under configuration/kibana folder with the following configurations:

server.host: "0.0.0.0"
server.shutdownTimeout: "5s"
elasticsearch.hosts: [ "http://elasticsearch8:9200" ]
monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true

Kibana Docker Service​

Add the following kibana service to docker-compose.yml and point to the kibana.yml file above:

kibana:
  image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.12.2
  restart: always
  volumes:
    - ${configuration_dir:-./configuration/kibana/kibana.yml}:/usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml
  depends_on:
    - elasticsearch8

II. Install Kibana on Ubuntu Server​

1. Install Kibana​

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Skip the first two commands if you have already installed the Elastic repository when installing Elasticsearch.

wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/elastic-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/elastic-keyring.gpg] https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-8.x.list

sudo apt update && sudo apt install kibana -y

2. Configure Kibana​

Create the Kibana configuration folder and edit the configuration file:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/kibana
sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

Add the following configuration:

server.host: "0.0.0.0"
server.shutdownTimeout: "5s"

# Elasticsearch connection settings
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

# Enable container monitoring (similar to Docker config)
monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true

3. Start and Enable Kibana​

sudo systemctl enable kibana
sudo systemctl start kibana
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Use sudo systemctl status kibana to check if Kibana is running correctly.