- X-Pack Reference for 6.0-6.2 and 5.x:
- Introduction
- Installing X-Pack
- Migrating to X-Pack
- Breaking Changes
- Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana
- Monitoring the Elastic Stack
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Reporting from Kibana
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Machine Learning in the Elastic Stack
- X-Pack Settings
- X-Pack APIs
- Info API
- Security APIs
- Watcher APIs
- Graph APIs
- Machine Learning APIs
- Close Jobs
- Create Datafeeds
- Create Jobs
- Delete Datafeeds
- Delete Jobs
- Delete Model Snapshots
- Flush Jobs
- Get Buckets
- Get Categories
- Get Datafeeds
- Get Datafeed Statistics
- Get Influencers
- Get Jobs
- Get Job Statistics
- Get Model Snapshots
- Get Records
- Open Jobs
- Post Data to Jobs
- Preview Datafeeds
- Revert Model Snapshots
- Start Datafeeds
- Stop Datafeeds
- Update Datafeeds
- Update Jobs
- Update Model Snapshots
- Validate Detectors
- Validate Jobs
- Definitions
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
- License Management
- Release Notes
WARNING: Version 5.4 of the Elastic Stack has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Monitoring Kibana
editMonitoring Kibana
editTo monitor Kibana:
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Install X-Pack by running
bin/kibana-plugin installin the Kibana installation directory:bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack
The plugin install script requires direct Internet access to download and install X-Pack. If your Kibana instance doesn’t have Internet access, manually download and install X-Pack.
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Kibana automatically sends metrics to the Elasticsearch cluster specified in the
elasticsearch.urlproperty inkibana.yml, which defaults tohttp://localhost:9200.You can set the
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.urlinkibana.ymlto specify the Elasticsearch cluster that Kibana should retrieve monitoring data from. This enables you to use a single Kibana instance to search and visualize data in your production cluster as well as monitor data sent to a dedicated monitoring cluster. - Restart Kibana.
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To verify your X-Pack monitoring configuration, point your web browser at your Kibana host, and select Monitoring from the side navigation. Metrics reported from Kibana should be visible in the Kibana section. When security is enabled, to view the monitoring dashboards you must log in to Kibana as a user who has both the
kibana_userandmonitoring_userroles. For example:POST /_xpack/security/user/stack-monitor { "password" : "changeme", "roles" : [ "kibana_user", "monitoring_user" ] }
