Configuring Kibana
When Kibana was started, it started on port 5601, and it tried to connect to Elasticsearch running on port 9200. What if we want to change some of these settings? All the configurations of Kibana are stored in a file called kibana.yml which is present under the folder config under $KIBANA_HOME. When this file is opened in your favorite text editor, it contains many properties (key-value pairs) that are commented by default. What this means is that unless those are overridden, the value specified in the property is considered the default value. To uncomment the property, remove the # before the property and save the file.
The following are some of the key configuration settings that you should look for when starting out ...
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