Install Kibana on Windows

Download the .zip windows archive for Kibana v7.13.4 from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.13.4-windows-x86_64.zip

Unzip it with your favourite unzip tool. This will create a folder called kibana-7.13.4-windows-x86_64, which we will refer to as $KIBANA_HOME. In a terminal window, CD to the $KIBANA_HOME directory, for instance:

CD c:\kibana-7.13.4-windows-x86_64

Kibana can be started from the command line as follows:

.\bin\kibana.bat

By default, Kibana runs in the foreground, prints its logs to STDOUT, and can be stopped by pressing Ctrl-C.

Kibana loads its configuration from the $KIBANA_HOME/config/kibana.yml file by default. The format of this config file is explained in Configuring Kibana.

The .zip package is entirely self-contained. All files and directories are, by default, contained within $KIBANA_HOME — the directory created when unpacking the archive.

This is very convenient because you don’t have to create any directories to start using Kibana, and uninstalling Kibana is as easy as removing the $KIBANA_HOME directory. However, it is advisable to change the default locations of the config and data directories so that you do not delete important data later on.