How to install Kibana on Ubuntu and Debian

Steps to install Kibana on Ubuntu and Debian:

Add ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) repository to apt.

Add GPG key of ELK's repository via apt-key.

$ wget --quiet --output-document=- https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
[sudo] password for user:
OK

Create ELK repository file.

$ echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list
deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main

Update list of available packages from the newly added repository.
```
$ sudo apt update
```
Install Kibana package.
```
$ sudo apt install --assume-yes kibana
```

Enable network access to port 5601.

$ sudo ufw allow 5601
Rules updated
Rules updated (v6)

Configure Kibana options located in /etc/kibana/kibana.yml.
1. Allow connection from remote host.
```
 server.host: "0.0.0.0" 
```
2. Specify Elasticsearch server to connect to.
```
 elasticsearch.url: "http://192.168.2.131:9200" 
```

Configure Kibana to automatically start during boot.

$ sudo systemctl enable kibana
Synchronizing state of kibana.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable kibana

Start Kibana service.
```
 $ sudo systemctl start kibana
```
Test if installation was successfully by opening your browser to port 5601 of your Kibana host.

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

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