- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 7.12
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Development tools settings
- Graph settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Machine learning settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Secure settings
- Search sessions settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Embed Kibana content in a web page
- Configure monitoring
- Configure security
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboard
- Canvas
- Maps
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Observability
- APM
- Elastic Security
- Dev Tools
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- Fleet
- Reporting
- Alerting and Actions
- REST API
- Kibana plugins
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Developer guide
Install Kibana on macOS with Homebrew
editInstall Kibana on macOS with Homebrew
editElastic 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 latest version of Kibana:
brew install elastic/tap/kibana-full
Directory layout for Homebrew installs
editWhen you install Kibana with brew install
, the config files, logs,
and data directory are stored in the following locations.
Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
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home |
Kibana home directory or |
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bin |
Binary scripts including |
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conf |
Configuration files including |
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data |
The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated on the node. Can hold multiple locations. |
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logs |
Log files location. |
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plugins |
Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. |
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