- Kibana is an open source product installed separately from Elastic Search
- Can be downloaded from Elastic.co or install 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://ip-address:5601