Start and stop Kibana
editStart and stop Kibana
editThe method for starting and stopping Kibana varies depending on how you installed it.
Archive packages (.tar.gz
)
editIf you installed Kibana on Linux or Darwin with a .tar.gz
package, you can
start and stop Kibana from the command line.
Run Kibana from the command line
editKibana can be started from the command line as follows:
./bin/kibana
By default, Kibana runs in the foreground, prints its logs to the
standard output (stdout
), and can be stopped by pressing Ctrl-C.
Archive packages (.zip
)
editIf you installed Kibana on Windows with a .zip
package, you can
stop and start Kibana from the command line.
Run Kibana from the command line
editKibana 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.
Debian packages
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
Run 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
You can start and stop Kibana 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/
.
Run 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. Log information can be accessed via
journalctl -u kibana.service
.
RPM packages
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
Run Kibana with SysV init
editUse the chkconfig
command to configure Kibana to start automatically
when the system boots up:
sudo chkconfig --add kibana
You can start and stop Kibana 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/
.
Run 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. Log information can be accessed via
journalctl -u kibana.service
.
Homebrew packages
editIf you installed Kibana with the Elastic Homebrew formulae, you can start and stop Kibana from the command line using brew services
.
Run Kibana with brew services
editWith Homebrew, Kibana can be started and stopped as follows:
brew services start elastic/tap/kibana-full brew services stop elastic/tap/kibana-full