- 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
Install Kibana from archive on Linux or macOS
editInstall Kibana from archive on Linux or macOS
editKibana is provided for Linux and Darwin as a .tar.gz
package. These packages
are the easiest formats to use when trying out Kibana.
This package contains both free and subscription features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the features.
The latest stable version of Kibana can be found on the Download Kibana page. Other versions can be found on the Past Releases page.
macOS is supported for development purposes only and is not covered under the support SLA for production-supported operating systems.
Download and install the Linux 64-bit package
editThe Linux archive for Kibana v8.17.0 can be downloaded and installed as follows:
Download and install the Darwin package
editmacOS Gatekeeper warnings
Apple’s rollout of stricter notarization requirements affected the notarization of the 8.17.0 Kibana artifacts. If macOS displays a dialog when you first run Kibana that interrupts it, you will need to take an action to allow it to run.
To prevent Gatekeeper checks on the Kibana files, run the following command on the
downloaded .tar.gz
archive or the directory to which was extracted:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine <archive-or-directory>
Alternatively, you can add a security override if a Gatekeeper popup appears by following the instructions in the How to open an app that hasn’t been notarized or is from an unidentified developer section of Safely open apps on your Mac.
The Darwin archive for Kibana v8.17.0 can be downloaded and installed as follows:
Start Elasticsearch and generate an enrollment token for Kibana
editWhen you start Elasticsearch for the first time, the following security configuration occurs automatically:
- Certificates and keys for TLS are generated for the transport and HTTP layers.
-
The TLS configuration settings are written to
elasticsearch.yml
. -
A password is generated for the
elastic
user. - An enrollment token is generated for Kibana.
You can then start Kibana and enter the enrollment token to securely connect Kibana with Elasticsearch. The enrollment token is valid for 30 minutes.
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.
Configure Kibana via the config file
editKibana loads its configuration from the $KIBANA_HOME/config/kibana.yml
file by default. The format of this config file is explained in
Configuring Kibana.
Directory layout of .tar.gz
archives
editThe .tar.gz
packages are 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.
Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
---|---|---|---|
home |
Kibana home directory or |
Directory created by unpacking the archive |
|
bin |
Binary scripts including |
|
|
config |
Configuration files including |
|
|
data |
The location of the data files written to disk by Kibana and its plugins |
|
|
plugins |
Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. |
|
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