How to install Kibana on CentOS / Red Hat

Steps to install Kibana on CentOS, Red Hat and Fedora:

Add ELK repository to yum.

Download and install public signing key for the repository.

 # rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Create and add repository information into /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo.

# cat >> /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo <<EOF
[elasticsearch-6.x]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md
EOF

Install Kibana package along with dependencies.

# yum install --assumeyes kibana
##### snipped

===================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                 Arch                                    Version                                  Repository                                          Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 kibana                                  x86_64                                  6.4.0-1                                  elasticsearch-6.x                                  181 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 181 M
Installed size: 422 M

Configure Kibana by editing /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
1. Allow connection from remote IP address
```
server.host: "0.0.0.0" 
```
2. Specify Elasticsearch server to connect to.
```
elasticsearch.url: "http://192.168.2.131:9200"
```
Configure firewall for Kibana service.
1. Enable network access to port 5601
```
# firewall-cmd --add-port=5601/tcp --permanent
success
```
2. Reload firewall rules and keep state information.
```
# firewall-cmd --reload
success
```
Start Kibana service.
```
# systemctl start kibana
```

Configure Kibana service to automatically start during boot.

# systemctl enable kibana
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/kibana.service to /etc/systemd/system/kibana.service.

Open browser to Kibana host's port 5601.

Author: Mohd Shakir Zakaria
Cloud architect by profession but always consider himself as a developer, entrepreneur and an opensource enthusiast.

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