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Install Kibana on macOS with Homebrew

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Install Kibana on macOS with Homebrew

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Elastic publishes Homebrew formulae so you can install Kibana with the Homebrew package manager.

To install with Homebrew, you first need to tap the Elastic Homebrew repository:

brew tap elastic/tap

Once you’ve tapped the Elastic Homebrew repo, you can use brew install to install the lastest version of Kibana:

brew install elastic/tap/kibana-full

Directory layout for Homebrew installs

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When you install Kibana with brew install, the config files, logs, and data directory are stored in the following locations.

Type Description Default Location Setting

home

Kibana home directory or $KIBANA_HOME

/usr/local/var/homebrew/linked/kibana-full

bin

Binary scripts including kibana to start a node and kibana-plugin to install plugins

/usr/local/var/homebrew/linked/kibana-full/bin

conf

Configuration files including kibana.yml

/usr/local/etc/kibana

data

The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated on the node. Can hold multiple locations.

/usr/local/var/lib/kibana

path.data

logs

Log files location.

/usr/local/var/log/kibana

path.logs

plugins

Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory.

/usr/local/var/homebrew/linked/kibana-full/plugins

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