1.5.2 Access Kibana

This topic provides systematic instructions to access Kibana.

  1. Go to path /kibana-7.8.1-linux-x86_64/config/kibana.yml.
  2. Edit server.host: "0.0.0.0" for access outside host and server.port: <any port, defaults to 5601>.
  3. Validate elasticsearch properties - it defaults to localhost:9200
  4. Go to http://host:port you should be able to see the Kibana console UI. Kibana needs elasticsearch to be UP as it creates indexes & fetches logs from it.
  5. Start the nohup bin/kibana &