Configuring and Installing Kibana

References:

Detailed instructions for installing Kibana in Ubuntu can be found here:

Install Kibana | Kibana Guide [7.15] | Elastic
The following instructions follow the instructions available at the following link which documents installing with the Debian package:

Install Kibana with Debian package | Kibana Guide [7.15] | Elastic

Instructions:

The most common install is to manually download the installation files that are for Debian and install it.

Steps:

1. Get the Elastic Search key, not needed if you did it in the last step.
   wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

2. Download the installer
   wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-8.0.0-amd64.deb

3. Confirm the checksum to ensure you have the correct installer
   shasum -a 512 kibana-8.0.0-amd64.deb

4. Run the installer
   sudo dpkg -i kibana-8.0.0-amd64.deb

5. create Kibana token
   sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token -s kibana

6. copy code that is displayed

7. sudo /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --allow-root

8. from a browser, follow link and instructions to configure kibana

9. ctrl+c to stop kibana

10. Enable the services
    sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service
sudo systemctl start kibana.service

✔️Ensure elastic is running by navigating to https://saltminer:5601/ in a browser or running the command:

wget -qO- https://elastichost1.domain.local:5601/

NOte: use journalctl -u kibana.service if you need to see the status.

Configuration file location:

The default locations for Kibana files are: