Installing Kibana on Ubuntu 22.04

Kibana is an open-source data visualization and exploration tool that works in conjunction with Elasticsearch. It provides a web interface for analyzing, searching and visualizing data stored in Elasticsearch clusters.

Installing Kibana

To install Kibana on Ubuntu 22.04, you can follow these steps:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk

wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/elasticsearch-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/elasticsearch-archive-keyring.gpg] https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install kibana

1. Update the package list:
2. Install OpenJDK 11, which is required by Kibana:
3. Import the Elastic GPG key:
4. Add the Elastic APT repository to the system:
5. Update the package list again:
6. Install Kibana:

Configuring and Starting Kibana

After the installation, you need to configure Kibana:

sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

sudo systemctl start kibana

sudo systemctl enable kibana

1. Open the Kibana configuration file:
2. Find the "elasticsearch.hosts" line and uncomment it:
3. Save the file and exit the text editor.
4. Start the Kibana service:
5. Enable the Kibana service to start on boot:
6. You can now access Kibana by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:5601.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Kibana on Ubuntu 22.04.