Installing Kibana on CentOS 7

Kibana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform designed to work with Elasticsearch. It provides a user-friendly interface for exploring and analyzing large volumes of data stored in Elasticsearch. Kibana allows you to create interactive dashboards, charts, graphs, and maps to visualize and understand your data.

To install Kibana on CentOS 7, follow the steps below:

1. Update your system packages by running the following commands:

   sudo yum update -y

2. Download and install the public signing key by running the command:

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

3. Create a Kibana repository by creating a file named kibana.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

   sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/kibana.repo

   Add the following content to the file:

   [kibana-7.x]     name=Kibana repository for 7.x packages     baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/yum     gpgcheck=1     gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch     enabled=1     autorefresh=1     type=rpm-md

   Save the file and exit the text editor.
4. Install Kibana by running the command:

   sudo yum install kibana -y

5. Edit the Kibana configuration file kibana.yml:

   sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

   Uncomment the server.host line and set it to 0.0.0.0 to allow access from external IP addresses. Save the file and exit.
6. Start and enable the Kibana service by running the commands:

   sudo systemctl start kibana

   sudo systemctl enable kibana

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kibana on CentOS 7. You can now access Kibana by opening your web browser and navigating to http://your_server_ip:5601. From there, you can configure Kibana, create visualizations, and start analyzing your data.