WARNING: Version 5.5 of Kibana has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Install Kibana with Debian Package
editInstall Kibana with Debian Package
editThe Debian package for Kibana can be downloaded from our website or from our APT repository. It can be used to install Kibana on any Debian-based system such as Debian and Ubuntu.
The latest stable version of Kibana can be found on the Download Kibana page. Other versions can be found on the Past Releases page.
Import the Elastic PGP Key
editWe sign all of our packages with the Elastic Signing Key (PGP key D88E42B4, available from https://pgp.mit.edu) with fingerprint:
4609 5ACC 8548 582C 1A26 99A9 D27D 666C D88E 42B4
Download and install the public signing key:
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
Installing from the APT repository
editYou may need to install the apt-transport-https
package on Debian before proceeding:
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
Save the repository definition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-5.x.list
:
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-5.x.list
Do not use add-apt-repository
as it will add a deb-src
entry as well, but
we do not provide a source package. If you have added the deb-src
entry, you
will see an error like the following:
Unable to find expected entry 'main/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Delete the deb-src
entry from the /etc/apt/sources.list
file and the
installation should work as expected.
You can install the Kibana Debian package with:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kibana
If two entries exist for the same Kibana repository, you will see an error like this during apt-get update
:
Duplicate sources.list entry https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/apt/ ...`
Examine /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kibana-5.x.list
for the duplicate entry or locate the duplicate entry amongst the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
and the /etc/apt/sources.list
file.
Download and install the Debian package manually
editThe Debian package for Kibana v5.5.3 can be downloaded from the website and installed as follows:
64 bit:
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-5.5.3-amd64.deb sha1sum kibana-5.5.3-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i kibana-5.5.3-amd64.deb
Compare the SHA produced by |
32 bit:
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-5.5.3-i386.deb sha1sum kibana-5.5.3-i386.deb sudo dpkg -i kibana-5.5.3-i386.deb
Compare the SHA produced by |
SysV init
vs systemd
editKibana is not started automatically after installation. How to start
and stop Kibana depends on whether your system uses SysV init
or
systemd
(used by newer distributions). You can tell which is being used by
running this command:
ps -p 1
Running Kibana with SysV init
editUse the update-rc.d
command to configure Kibana to start automatically
when the system boots up:
sudo update-rc.d kibana defaults 95 10
Kibana can be started and stopped using the service
command:
sudo -i service kibana start sudo -i service kibana stop
If Kibana fails to start for any reason, it will print the reason for
failure to STDOUT. Log files can be found in /var/log/kibana/
.
Running Kibana with systemd
editTo configure Kibana to start automatically when the system boots up, run the following commands:
sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service
Kibana can be started and stopped as follows:
sudo systemctl start kibana.service sudo systemctl stop kibana.service
These commands provide no feedback as to whether Kibana was started
successfully or not. Instead, this information will be written in the log
files located in /var/log/kibana/
.
Configuring Kibana via config file
editKibana loads its configuration from the /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
file by default. The format of this config file is explained in
Configuring Kibana.
Directory layout of Debian package
editThe Debian package places config files, logs, and the data directory in the appropriate locations for a Debian-based system:
Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
---|---|---|---|
home |
Kibana home directory or |
|
|
bin |
Binary scripts including |
|
|
config |
Configuration files including |
|
|
data |
The location of the data files written to disk by Kibana and its plugins |
|
|
optimize |
Transpiled source code. Certain administrative actions (e.g. plugin install) result in the source code being retranspiled on the fly. |
|
|
plugins |
Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. |
|