Running Kibana

Change to your local Kibana directory. Start the development server.

yarn start

Now you can point your web browser to http://localhost:5601 and start using Kibana! When running yarn start, Kibana will also log that it is listening on port 5603 due to the base path proxy, but you should still access Kibana on port 5601.

By default, you can log in with username elastic and password changeme. See the --help options on yarn es <command> if you’d like to configure a different password.

If you’re looking to only work with the open-source software, supply the license type to yarn es:

yarn es snapshot --license oss

And start Kibana with only open-source code:

yarn start --oss

If you’re installing dependencies and seeing an error that looks something like

Unsupported URL Type: link:packages/elastic-eslint-config-kibana

you’re likely running npm. To install dependencies in Kibana you need to run yarn kbn bootstrap. For more info, see Setting Up Your Development Environment above.

The config/kibana.yml file stores user configuration directives. Since this file is checked into source control, however, developer preferences can’t be saved without the risk of accidentally committing the modified version. To make customizing configuration easier during development, the Kibana CLI will look for a config/kibana.dev.yml file if run with the --dev flag. This file behaves just like the non-dev version and accepts any of the standard settings.

Kibana includes self-signed certificates that can be used for development purposes in the browser and for communicating with Elasticsearch: yarn start --ssl & yarn es snapshot --ssl.