October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
By default, Kibana would have a config file at /etc/kibana/kibana.yml that contains all the required parameters related to metadata, Elasticsearch, logging, and more. It even has a set of predefined parameters, which can be disabled when not being used. The key parameters we would change are:
server.port: 5601server.host: "127.0.0.1"elasticsearch.url: "http://127.0.0.1:9200"# If authentication is enabled on elasticsearch cluster#elasticsearch.username: "user"#elasticsearch.password: "pass"
Once these parameters are configured, you can start the Elasticsearch service using service kibana start. After a successful startup, you can access it using the web browser on port 5601, for example, http://127.0.0.1:5601: