Kibana is analytics, visualization and monitoring tool from Elastic stack. It will connect to Elastic search and analyze and visualize the data. Most of the organizations are using Kibana for applications log monitoring. We can build nice Dashboards in Kibana and configure alerts as well.
Software and Tools
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Windows 10 Java 1.8 or
higher kibana-7.13.3 elasticsearch-7.13.3 |
Prerequisite
Install Elastic Search and Start Elastic Cluster
http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2021/07/install-elastic-search-cluster.html
Download and Extract
Go to elastic search download page and download Kibana
as per your system configurations.
https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana
Direct link as follows
https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.13.3-windows-x86_64.zip
Extract downloaded zip in local drive
Configure Kibana
Locate to Kibana conf directory and make sure elastic
search cluster nodes.
Add/Update “kibana.yml” with elastic cluster
nodes according to our elastic cluster installation.
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# The URLs of
the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries. elasticsearch.hosts:
["http://localhost:9200","http://localhost:9201","http://localhost:9202"] |
Start Kibana
Open command prompt and locate to root directory of Kibana
and use below command to start. Pass “kibana.yaml” file as startup --config
option for kibata.bat.
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bin\kibana.bat
--config config\kibana.yml |
Kibana will start on 5601 port and you can
access Kibana with below URL. We can Kibana startup information in console
logs.
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Sample Data in Kibana
Click on Add Data button and navigate to Kibana home
page and click on “Try Sample Data”
We can add any sample data from given options. We can
try Sample weblogs.
Once data is added, we can view the data. Click on
view data and select Dashboard.
Sample Web logs data dashboard as follow
Reference
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/get-started.html
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