- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 8.17
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- AI Assistant settings
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Cases settings
- Enterprise Search settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logging settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Search sessions settings
- Secure settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- URL drilldown settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Configure security
- Configure reporting
- Configure logging
- Configure monitoring
- Command line tools
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboards
- Canvas
- Maps
- Build a map to compare metrics by country or region
- Track, visualize, and alert on assets in real time
- Map custom regions with reverse geocoding
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
- Plot big data
- Search geographic data
- Configure map settings
- Connect to Elastic Maps Service
- Import geospatial data
- Troubleshoot
- Reporting and sharing
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Alerting
- Observability
- Search
- Security
- Dev Tools
- Fleet
- Osquery
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- Cases
- Connectors
- Amazon Bedrock
- Cases
- CrowdStrike
- D3 Security
- Google Gemini
- IBM Resilient
- Index
- Jira
- Microsoft Teams
- Observability AI Assistant
- OpenAI
- Opsgenie
- PagerDuty
- SentinelOne
- Server log
- ServiceNow ITSM
- ServiceNow SecOps
- ServiceNow ITOM
- Swimlane
- Slack
- TheHive
- Tines
- Torq
- Webhook
- Webhook - Case Management
- xMatters
- Preconfigured connectors
- License Management
- Maintenance windows
- Manage data views
- Numeral Formatting
- Rollup Jobs
- Manage saved objects
- Security
- Spaces
- Advanced Settings
- Tags
- Upgrade Assistant
- Watcher
- REST API
- Get features API
- Kibana spaces APIs
- Kibana role management APIs
- User session management APIs
- Saved objects APIs
- Data views API
- Index patterns APIs
- Alerting APIs
- Action and connector APIs
- Cases APIs
- Import and export dashboard APIs
- Logstash configuration management APIs
- Machine learning APIs
- Osquery manager API
- Short URLs APIs
- Get Task Manager health
- Upgrade assistant APIs
- Synthetics APIs
- Uptime APIs
- Kibana plugins
- Troubleshooting
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Upgrade notes
- Kibana 8.17.1
- Kibana 8.17.0
- Kibana 8.16.3
- Kibana 8.16.2
- Kibana 8.16.1
- Kibana 8.16.0
- Kibana 8.15.5
- Kibana 8.15.4
- Kibana 8.15.3
- Kibana 8.15.2
- Kibana 8.15.1
- Kibana 8.15.0
- Kibana 8.14.3
- Kibana 8.14.2
- Kibana 8.14.1
- Kibana 8.14.0
- Kibana 8.13.4
- Kibana 8.13.3
- Kibana 8.13.2
- Kibana 8.13.1
- Kibana 8.13.0
- Kibana 8.12.2
- Kibana 8.12.1
- Kibana 8.12.0
- Kibana 8.11.4
- Kibana 8.11.3
- Kibana 8.11.2
- Kibana 8.11.1
- Kibana 8.11.0
- Kibana 8.10.4
- Kibana 8.10.3
- Kibana 8.10.2
- Kibana 8.10.1
- Kibana 8.10.0
- Kibana 8.9.2
- Kibana 8.9.1
- Kibana 8.9.0
- Kibana 8.8.2
- Kibana 8.8.1
- Kibana 8.8.0
- Kibana 8.7.1
- Kibana 8.7.0
- Kibana 8.6.1
- Kibana 8.6.0
- Kibana 8.5.2
- Kibana 8.5.1
- Kibana 8.5.0
- Kibana 8.4.3
- Kibana 8.4.2
- Kibana 8.4.1
- Kibana 8.4.0
- Kibana 8.3.3
- Kibana 8.3.2
- Kibana 8.3.1
- Kibana 8.3.0
- Kibana 8.2.3
- Kibana 8.2.2
- Kibana 8.2.1
- Kibana 8.2.0
- Kibana 8.1.3
- Kibana 8.1.2
- Kibana 8.1.1
- Kibana 8.1.0
- Kibana 8.0.0
- Kibana 8.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 8.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 8.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 8.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 8.0.0-alpha1
- Developer guide
Start and stop Kibana
editStart and stop Kibana
editThe method for starting and stopping Kibana varies depending on how you installed
it. If a password protected keystore is used, the environment variable
KBN_KEYSTORE_PASSPHRASE_FILE
can be used to point to a file containing the password,
the environment variable KEYSTORE_PASSWORD
can be defined, or you will be prompted
to enter to enter the password on startup,
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.
If this is the first time you’re starting Kibana, this command generates a unique link in your terminal to enroll your Kibana instance with Elasticsearch.
- In your terminal, click the generated link to open Kibana in your browser.
- In your browser, paste the enrollment token that was generated in the terminal when you started Elasticsearch, and then click the button to connect your Kibana instance with Elasticsearch.
-
Log in to Kibana as the
elastic
user with the password that was generated when you started Elasticsearch.
If you need to reset the password for the elastic
user or other
built-in users, run the elasticsearch-reset-password
tool. To generate new enrollment tokens for
Kibana or Elasticsearch nodes, run the
elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token
tool.
These tools are available in the Elasticsearch bin
directory.
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.
If this is the first time you’re starting Kibana, this command generates a unique link in your terminal to enroll your Kibana instance with Elasticsearch.
- In your terminal, click the generated link to open Kibana in your browser.
- In your browser, paste the enrollment token that was generated in the terminal when you started Elasticsearch, and then click the button to connect your Kibana instance with Elasticsearch.
-
Log in to Kibana as the
elastic
user with the password that was generated when you started Elasticsearch.
If you need to reset the password for the elastic
user or other
built-in users, run the elasticsearch-reset-password
tool. To generate new enrollment tokens for
Kibana or Elasticsearch nodes, run the
elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token
tool.
These tools are available in the Elasticsearch bin
directory.
Debian and RPM packages
editRun Kibana with systemd
editTo configure Kibana to start automatically when the system starts, 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
.
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