Configuring Kibana

console.enabled:

Toggling this causes the server to regenerate assets on the next startup, which may cause a delay before pages start being served. Set to false to disable Console. Default: true

cpu.cgroup.path.override:

Override for cgroup cpu path when mounted in a manner that is inconsistent with /proc/self/cgroup.

cpuacct.cgroup.path.override:

Override for cgroup cpuacct path when mounted in a manner that is inconsistent with /proc/self/cgroup.

csp.rules:

A content-security-policy template that disables certain unnecessary and potentially insecure capabilities in the browser. It is strongly recommended that you keep the default CSP rules that ship with Kibana.

csp.strict:

Blocks Kibana access to any browser that does not enforce even rudimentary CSP rules. In practice, this disables support for older, less safe browsers like Internet Explorer. For more information, refer to Content Security Policy. Default: true

csp.warnLegacyBrowsers:

Shows a warning message after loading Kibana to any browser that does not enforce even rudimentary CSP rules, though Kibana is still accessible. This configuration is effectively ignored when csp.strict is enabled. Default: true

elasticsearch.customHeaders:

Header names and values to send to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration. Default: {}

elasticsearch.hosts:

The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries. All nodes listed here must be on the same cluster. Default: [ "http://localhost:9200" ] + To enable SSL/TLS for outbound connections to Elasticsearch, use the https protocol in this setting.

elasticsearch.logQueries:

Log queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true. This is useful for seeing the query DSL generated by applications that currently do not have an inspector, for example Timelion and Monitoring. Default: false

elasticsearch.pingTimeout:

Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Default: the value of the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting

elasticsearch.preserveHost:

When the value is true, Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host setting. When the value is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host that connects to this Kibana instance. Default: true

elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist:

List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send no client-side headers, set this value to [] (an empty list). Removing the authorization header from being whitelisted means that you cannot use basic authentication in Kibana. Default: [ 'authorization' ]

elasticsearch.requestTimeout:

Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value must be a positive integer. Default: 30000

elasticsearch.shardTimeout:

Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable. Default: 30000

elasticsearch.sniffInterval:

Time in milliseconds between requests to check Elasticsearch for an updated list of nodes. Default: false

elasticsearch.sniffOnStart:

Attempt to find other Elasticsearch nodes on startup. Default: false

elasticsearch.sniffOnConnectionFault:

Update the list of Elasticsearch nodes immediately following a connection fault. Default: false

elasticsearch.ssl.alwaysPresentCertificate:

Controls Kibana behavior in regard to presenting a client certificate when requested by Elasticsearch. This setting applies to all outbound SSL/TLS connections to Elasticsearch, including requests that are proxied for end users. Default: false

elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: and elasticsearch.ssl.key:

Paths to a PEM-encoded X.509 client certificate and its corresponding private key. These are used by Kibana to authenticate itself when making outbound SSL/TLS connections to Elasticsearch. For this setting to take effect, the xpack.security.http.ssl.client_authentication setting in Elasticsearch must be also be set to "required" or "optional" to request a client certificate from Kibana.

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities:

Paths to one or more PEM-encoded X.509 certificate authority (CA) certificates, which make up a trusted certificate chain for Elasticsearch. This chain is used by Kibana to establish trust when making outbound SSL/TLS connections to Elasticsearch. + In addition to this setting, trusted certificates may be specified via elasticsearch.ssl.keystore.path and/or elasticsearch.ssl.truststore.path.

elasticsearch.ssl.keyPassphrase:

The password that decrypts the private key that is specified via elasticsearch.ssl.key. This value is optional, as the key may not be encrypted.

elasticsearch.ssl.keystore.path:

Path to a PKCS#12 keystore that contains an X.509 client certificate and it’s corresponding private key. These are used by Kibana to authenticate itself when making outbound SSL/TLS connections to Elasticsearch. For this setting, you must also set the xpack.security.http.ssl.client_authentication setting in Elasticsearch to "required" or "optional" to request a client certificate from Kibana. + If the keystore contains any additional certificates, they are used as a trusted certificate chain for Elasticsearch. This chain is used by Kibana to establish trust when making outbound SSL/TLS connections to Elasticsearch. In addition to this setting, trusted certificates may be specified via elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities and/or elasticsearch.ssl.truststore.path.

elasticsearch.ssl.keystore.password:

The password that decrypts the keystore specified via elasticsearch.ssl.keystore.path. If the keystore has no password, leave this as blank. If the keystore has an empty password, set this to "".

elasticsearch.ssl.truststore.path:::

Path to a PKCS#12 trust store that contains one or more X.509 certificate authority (CA) certificates, which make up a trusted certificate chain for Elasticsearch. This chain is used by Kibana to establish trust when making outbound SSL/TLS connections to Elasticsearch. + In addition to this setting, trusted certificates may be specified via elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities and/or elasticsearch.ssl.keystore.path.

elasticsearch.ssl.truststore.password:

The password that decrypts the trust store specified via elasticsearch.ssl.truststore.path. If the trust store has no password, leave this as blank. If the trust store has an empty password, set this to "".

elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode:

Controls the verification of the server certificate that Kibana receives when making an outbound SSL/TLS connection to Elasticsearch. Valid values are "full", "certificate", and "none". Using "full" performs hostname verification, using "certificate" skips hostname verification, and using "none" skips verification entirely. Default: "full"

elasticsearch.startupTimeout:

Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying. Default: 5000

elasticsearch.username: and elasticsearch.password:

If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana index at startup. Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which is proxied through the Kibana server.

interpreter.enableInVisualize

Enables use of interpreter in Visualize. Default: true

kibana.defaultAppId:

The default application to load. Default: "home"

kibana.index:

Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations, and dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn’t already exist. If you configure a custom index, the name must be lowercase, and conform to the Elasticsearch index name limitations. Default: ".kibana"

kibana.autocompleteTimeout:

Time in milliseconds to wait for autocomplete suggestions from Elasticsearch. This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Default: "1000"

kibana.autocompleteTerminateAfter:

Maximum number of documents loaded by each shard to generate autocomplete suggestions. This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Default: "100000"

logging.dest:

Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output. Default: stdout

logging.json:

Logs output as JSON. When set to true, the logs are formatted as JSON strings that include timestamp, log level, context, message text, and any other metadata that may be associated with the log message. When logging.dest.stdout is set, and there is no interactive terminal ("TTY"), this setting defaults to true. Default: false

logging.quiet:

Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages. Default: false

logging.rotate:

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specifies the options for the logging rotate feature. When not defined, all the sub options defaults would be applied. The following example shows a valid logging rotate configuration:

logging.rotate.enabled:

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Set the value of this setting to true to enable log rotation. If you do not have a logging.dest set that is different from stdout that feature would not take any effect. Default: false

logging.rotate.everyBytes:

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. The maximum size of a log file (that is not an exact limit). After the limit is reached, a new log file is generated. The default size limit is 10485760 (10 MB) and this option should be in the range of 1048576 (1 MB) to 1073741824 (1 GB). Default: 10485760

logging.rotate.keepFiles:

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. The number of most recent rotated log files to keep on disk. Older files are deleted during log rotation. The default value is 7. The logging.rotate.keepFiles option has to be in the range of 2 to 1024 files. Default: 7

logging.rotate.pollingInterval:

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. The number of milliseconds for the polling strategy in case the logging.rotate.usePolling is enabled. logging.rotate.usePolling must be in the 5000 to 3600000 millisecond range. Default: 10000

logging.rotate.usePolling:

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. By default we try to understand the best way to monitoring the log file and warning about it. Please be aware there are some systems where watch api is not accurate. In those cases, in order to get the feature working, the polling method could be used enabling that option. Default: false

logging.silent:

Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output. Default: false

logging.timezone

Set to the canonical timezone ID (for example, America/Los_Angeles) to log events using that timezone. For a list of timezones, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones. Default: UTC

logging.verbose:

Set to true to log all events, including system usage information and all requests. Default: false

map.includeElasticMapsService:

Set to false to disable connections to Elastic Maps Service. When includeElasticMapsService is turned off, only the vector layers configured by map.regionmap and the tile layer configured by map.tilemap.url are available in Maps. Default: true

map.proxyElasticMapsServiceInMaps:

Set to true to proxy all Maps application Elastic Maps Service requests through the Kibana server. Default: false

map.regionmap:

Specifies additional vector layers for use in Maps visualizations. Each layer object points to an external vector file that contains a geojson FeatureCollection. The file must use the WGS84 coordinate reference system and only include polygons. If the file is hosted on a separate domain from Kibana, the server needs to be CORS-enabled so Kibana can download the file. The following example shows a valid region map configuration.

map.regionmap.includeElasticMapsService:

Specifies the option to include layers from the Elastic Maps Service in the vector layer option list. When off, only the configured layers are included. The default is true. This option also specifies if the tile-service from the Elastic Maps Service is available.

map.regionmap.layers[].attribution:

Optional. References the originating source of the geojson file.

map.regionmap.layers[].fields[]:

Mandatory. Each layer can contain multiple fields to indicate what properties from the geojson features you wish to expose. The following shows how to define multiple properties:

map.regionmap.layers[].fields[].description:

Mandatory. The human readable text that is shown under the Options tab when building the Region Map visualization.

map.regionmap.layers[].fields[].name:

Mandatory. This value is used to do an inner-join between the document stored in Elasticsearch and the geojson file. For example, if the field in the geojson is called Location and has city names, there must be a field in Elasticsearch that holds the same values that Kibana can then use to lookup for the geoshape data.

map.regionmap.layers[].name:

Mandatory. A description of the map being provided.

map.regionmap.layers[].url:

Mandatory. The location of the geojson file as provided by a webserver.

map.tilemap.options.attribution:

The map attribution string. Default: "© [Elastic Maps Service](https://www.elastic.co/elastic-maps-service)"

map.tilemap.options.maxZoom:

The maximum zoom level. Default: 10

map.tilemap.options.minZoom:

The minimum zoom level. Default: 1

map.tilemap.options.subdomains:

An array of subdomains used by the tile service. Specify the position of the subdomain the URL with the token {s}.

map.tilemap.url:

The URL to the tileservice that Kibana uses to display map tiles in tilemap visualizations. By default, Kibana reads this URL from an external metadata service, but users can override this parameter to use their own Tile Map Service. For example: "https://tiles.elastic.co/v2/default/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?elastic_tile_service_tos=agree&my_app_name=kibana"

newsfeed.enabled:

Controls whether to enable the newsfeed system for the Kibana UI notification center. Set to false to disable the newsfeed system. Default: true

path.data:

The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch. Default: data

pid.file:

Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.

ops.interval:

Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance metrics. The minimum value is 100. Default: 5000

server.basePath:

Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. Use the server.rewriteBasePath setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup. This setting cannot end in a slash (/).

server.compression.enabled:

Set to false to disable HTTP compression for all responses. Default: true

server.compression.referrerWhitelist:

Specifies an array of trusted hostnames, such as the Kibana host, or a reverse proxy sitting in front of it. This determines whether HTTP compression may be used for responses, based on the request Referer header. This setting may not be used when server.compression.enabled is set to false. Default: none

server.customResponseHeaders:

Header names and values to send on all responses to the client from the Kibana server. Default: {}

server.host:

This setting specifies the host of the back end server. To allow remote users to connect, set the value to the IP address or DNS name of the Kibana server. Default: "localhost"

server.keepaliveTimeout:

The number of milliseconds to wait for additional data before restarting the server.socketTimeout counter. Default: "120000"

server.maxPayloadBytes:

The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests. Default: 1048576

server.name:

A human-readable display name that identifies this Kibana instance. Default: "your-hostname"

server.port:

Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use. Default: 5601

server.rewriteBasePath:

Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with server.basePath or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy. In Kibana 6.3 and earlier, the default is false. In Kibana 7.x, the setting is deprecated. In Kibana 8.0 and later, the default is true. Default: deprecated

server.socketTimeout:

The number of milliseconds to wait before closing an inactive socket. Default: "120000"

server.ssl.certificate: and server.ssl.key:

Paths to a PEM-encoded X.509 server certificate and its corresponding private key. These are used by Kibana to establish trust when receiving inbound SSL/TLS connections from users.

server.ssl.certificateAuthorities:

Paths to one or more PEM-encoded X.509 certificate authority (CA) certificates which make up a trusted certificate chain for Kibana. This chain is used by Kibana to establish trust when receiving inbound SSL/TLS connections from end users. If PKI authentication is enabled, this chain is also used by Kibana to verify client certificates from end users. + In addition to this setting, trusted certificates may be specified via server.ssl.keystore.path and/or server.ssl.truststore.path.

server.ssl.cipherSuites:

Details on the format, and the valid options, are available via the OpenSSL cipher list format documentation. Default: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, HIGH,!aNULL, !eNULL, !EXPORT, !DES, !RC4, !MD5, !PSK, !SRP, !CAMELLIA.

server.ssl.clientAuthentication:

Controls the behavior in Kibana for requesting a certificate from client connections. Valid values are "required", "optional", and "none". Using "required" will refuse to establish the connection unless a client presents a certificate, using "optional" will allow a client to present a certificate if it has one, and using "none" will prevent a client from presenting a certificate. Default: "none"

server.ssl.enabled:

Enables SSL/TLS for inbound connections to Kibana. When set to true, a certificate and its corresponding private key must be provided. These can be specified via server.ssl.keystore.path or the combination of server.ssl.certificate and server.ssl.key. Default: false

server.ssl.keyPassphrase:

The password that decrypts the private key that is specified via server.ssl.key. This value is optional, as the key may not be encrypted.

server.ssl.keystore.path:

Path to a PKCS#12 keystore that contains an X.509 server certificate and its corresponding private key. If the keystore contains any additional certificates, those will be used as a trusted certificate chain for Kibana. All of these are used by Kibana to establish trust when receiving inbound SSL/TLS connections from end users. The certificate chain is also used by Kibana to verify client certificates from end users when PKI authentication is enabled. + In addition to this setting, trusted certificates may be specified via server.ssl.certificateAuthorities and/or server.ssl.truststore.path.

server.ssl.keystore.password:

The password that will be used to decrypt the keystore specified via server.ssl.keystore.path. If the keystore has no password, leave this unset. If the keystore has an empty password, set this to "".

server.ssl.truststore.path:

Path to a PKCS#12 trust store that contains one or more X.509 certificate authority (CA) certificates which make up a trusted certificate chain for Kibana. This chain is used by Kibana to establish trust when receiving inbound SSL/TLS connections from end users. If PKI authentication is enabled, this chain is also used by Kibana to verify client certificates from end users. + In addition to this setting, trusted certificates may be specified via server.ssl.certificateAuthorities and/or server.ssl.keystore.path.

server.ssl.truststore.password:

The password that will be used to decrypt the trust store specified via server.ssl.truststore.path. If the trust store has no password, leave this unset. If the trust store has an empty password, set this to "".

server.ssl.redirectHttpFromPort:

Kibana binds to this port and redirects all http requests to https over the port configured as server.port.

server.ssl.supportedProtocols:

An array of supported protocols with versions. Valid protocols: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2. Default: TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2

server.uuid:

The unique identifier for this Kibana instance. It must be a valid UUIDv4. It gets automatically generated on the first startup if not specified and persisted in the data path.

server.xsrf.whitelist:

It is not recommended to disable protections for arbitrary API endpoints. Instead, supply the kbn-xsrf header. The server.xsrf.whitelist setting requires the following format:

server.xsrf.disableProtection:

Setting this to true will completely disable Cross-site request forgery protection in Kibana. This is not recommended. Default: false

status.allowAnonymous:

If authentication is enabled, setting this to true enables unauthenticated users to access the Kibana server status API and status page. Default: false

telemetry.allowChangingOptInStatus

When true, users are able to change the telemetry setting at a later time in Advanced Settings. When false, Kibana looks at the value of telemetry.optIn to determine whether to send telemetry data or not. telemetry.allowChangingOptInStatus and telemetry.optIn cannot be false at the same time. Default: true.

telemetry.optIn

When true, telemetry data is sent to Elastic. When false, collection of telemetry data is disabled. To enable telemetry and prevent users from disabling it, set telemetry.allowChangingOptInStatus to false and telemetry.optIn to true. Default: true

telemetry.enabled

Reporting your cluster statistics helps us improve your user experience. Set to false to disable telemetry capabilities entirely. You can alternatively opt out through Advanced Settings. Default: true

vega.enableExternalUrls:

Set this value to true to allow Vega to use any URL to access external data sources and images. When false, Vega can only get data from Elasticsearch. Default: false

xpack.license_management.enabled

Set this value to false to disable the License Management UI. Default: true

xpack.rollup.enabled:

Set this value to false to disable the Rollup UI. Default: true

i18n.locale

Set this value to change the Kibana interface language. Valid locales are: en, zh-CN, ja-JP. Default: en

xpack.actions.enabledActionTypes:

Set this value to an array of action types that are enabled. An element of * indicates all action types registered are enabled. The action types provided by Kibana are .server-log, .slack, .email, .index, .pagerduty, .webhook. Default: [ * ]

xpack.actions.whitelistedHosts:

Set this value to an array of host names, with actions such as email, slack, pagerduty, and webhook, can connect to. An element of * indicates any host can be connected. An empty array indicates no hosts can be connected. Default: [ * ]