Install Kibana with Debian packageedit
The Debian package for Kibana can be downloaded from our website or from our APT repository. It can be used to install Kibana on any Debian-based system such as Debian and Ubuntu.
This package contains both free and subscription features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the features.
The latest stable version of Kibana can be found on the Download Kibana page. Other versions can be found on the Past Releases page.
Import the Elastic PGP keyedit
We sign all of our packages with the Elastic Signing Key (PGP key D88E42B4, available from https://pgp.mit.edu) with fingerprint:
4609 5ACC 8548 582C 1A26 99A9 D27D 666C D88E 42B4
Download and install the public signing key:
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/elasticsearch-keyring.gpg
Install from the APT repositoryedit
Version 8.10.0 of Kibana has not yet been released.
Download and install the Debian package manuallyedit
Version 8.10.0 of Kibana has not yet been released.
Start Elasticsearch and generate an enrollment token for Kibanaedit
When you start Elasticsearch for the first time, the following security configuration occurs automatically:
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Authentication and authorization are enabled, and a password is generated for the
elasticbuilt-in superuser. - Certificates and keys for TLS are generated for the transport and HTTP layer, and TLS is enabled and configured with these keys and certificates.
The password and certificate and keys are output to your terminal.
If Kibana was in stalled via APT repository, the security configuration, including the password, above won’t be initiated.
To get the password for the user elastic for login, please do this in
elasticsearch by following referring to
this section
You can then generate an enrollment token for Kibana with the
elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token tool:
bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token -s kibana
or if we are in a cloud environment, such as AWS, we will need
sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token --scope kibana --url "https://localhost:9200"
Running as root
If Kibana was installed using the deb or rpm package then run
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token --scope kibana as root
Start Kibana and enter the enrollment token to securely connect Kibana with Elasticsearch.
Run Kibana with systemdedit
To configure Kibana to start automatically when the system starts, run the following commands:
sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service
Kibana can be started and stopped as follows:
sudo systemctl start kibana.service sudo systemctl stop kibana.service
These commands provide no feedback as to whether Kibana was started
successfully or not. Log information can be accessed via
journalctl -u kibana.service.
Configure Kibana via the config fileedit
Kibana loads its configuration from the /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
file by default. The format of this config file is explained in
Configuring Kibana.
Directory layout of Debian packageedit
The Debian package places config files, logs, and the data directory in the appropriate locations for a Debian-based system:
| Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
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home |
Kibana home directory or |
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bin |
Binary scripts including |
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config |
Configuration files including |
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data |
The location of the data files written to disk by Kibana and its plugins |
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logs |
Logs files location |
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plugins |
Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. |
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