👉 This writeup is part of “Elasticsearch Deploy Docs” series

Kibana Installation

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❗ The elasticsearch should be up and running before you start kibana installation procedure

Install via apt-get from here

  • As of today the kibana version is 7.6.2
$ wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
$ echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kibana

Configure Kibana

Refer kibana.yml configuration file in current directory and modify accordingly

  • Specify kibana credentials in kibana.yml which were generated while configuration elasticsearch security

Configure Security

📄 Official doc

HTTPS Configuration with Let’s Encrypt certificates

  • Download certbot and generate certificate
$ wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
$ chmod 755 certbot-auto
$ ./certbot-auto certonly
  • Copy certificates to kibana config directory and change permission
$ mkdir /etc/kibana/ssl
$ cp -pr /etc/letsencrypt/archive/data.example.com /etc/kibana/ssl/
$ chmod 750 /etc/kibana/ssl/data.example.com
$ chmod 640 /etc/kibana/ssl/data.example.com/*
$ chown -R root:kibana /etc/kibana/ssl/data.example.com

Add below config to kibana.yml to enable HTTPS

server.ssl.enabled: true
server.ssl.certificate: /etc/kibana/ssl/elk-staging.yourdomain.com/cert1.pem
server.ssl.key: /etc/kibana/ssl/elk-staging.yourdomain.com/privkey1.pem

SSL Config for Kibana to Communicate Elasticsearch

  • Copy elasticsearch-ca.pem(This the pem file that you were generated while configuring elasticsearch security) to /etc/kibana/ca/
$ mkdir /etc/kibana/ca/
$ ls /etc/kibana/ca/elasticsearch-ca.pem

Add below config to kibana.yml

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: [ "/etc/kibana/ca/elasticsearch-ca.pem" ]

Upgrade Kibana

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As of now, the current latest version of kibana is v7.7.1. Below is the procedure for upgrade from 7.6.2=>7.7.1.

  1. Upgrade
$ sudo systemctl stop kibana
$ sudo apt-get install --upgrade-only kibana
$ sudo systemctl start kibana

❗ Kibana install will take some, especially while “Unpacking” package. So, please be patient