Monday, 26 October 2015

Kibana 4 Overview & Setup

Kibana 4 :

Kibana is a javascript library which allow us to create beautiful dashboard reports using elastic search data. It is an open source so that we can freely get it and used it as a data visualization plugin for elastic search.
It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an ElasticSearch cluster.

Purpose:
User can create bar, line and scatter plots or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.

Install Kibana 4 on Window:

Kibana configuration can be done with few easy steps:
1. Download it from this url.
2. Unzip the zip files and save it in some folder.
3. Open config/kibana.yml file and update property elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200", if 
    it is not set as same.

To start Kibana, execute below command:



A server would get started and we can verify that by hitting url "http://localhost:5601"


Note: To run Kibana, elastic search needs to be running. 



Regards,
Vidya Bhushan

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