1. Kibana installation


    1. Prerequisites

Elasticserch should be installed

    1. Installing Kibana

Since we already configured the elastic Package source, we can start and installing Kibana without the need to configure the package source

For “Multi server environment” the kibana should be installed only on client node

    1. installing and configuring Kibana

in order to install kibana run the following command:

sudo apt install kibana


Next, since Kibana is configured to listen to localhost, we need to change some configuration 

sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

server.host: "192.168.35.129"

elasticsearch.hosts: ["https://192.168.35.129:9200"]


#Elasticsearch-Kibana-TLS

elasticsearch.username: "kibana"

elasticsearch.password: "Es123456$"

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: [ "/etc/kibana/certs/elasticsearch-kibana-certificates.pem" ]

elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: certificate


#kibana HTTPS

server.ssl.enabled: true

server.ssl.certificate: /etc/kibana/certs/kibana-server.crt

server.ssl.key:  /etc/kibana/certs/kibana-server.key


csp.strict: false

csp.warnLegacyBrowsers: false





    1. Lunching Kibana

Next, we enable kibana service to start automatically when the OS starts

sudo systemctl enable kibana

In order to start & stop the kibana service you the following:

sudo systemctl start kibana

sudo systemctl stop kibana

sudo systemctl restart kibana

In order to check the service status 

sudo service kibana status


check that we can connect to kibana:

http://[server-ip]:5601/




Please add these two config properties in to the end of the Kibana.yml.

Make sure you save and restart the Kibana service


#Default: false Blocks access to Kibana to any browser that does not enforce even rudimentary CSP rules.

#In practice, this will disable support for older, less safe browsers like Internet Explorer. 

csp.strict: false


#Shows a warning message after loading Kibana to any browser that does not enforce even rudimentary CSP rules, though Kibana is still accessible.

#This configuration is effectively ignored when csp.strict is enabled.

csp.warnLegacyBrowsers: false




sudo -i service kibana start

sudo -i service kibana stop


    1. Kibana Advance Settings



.state:storeInSessionStorage option in advanced settings or simplify the onscreen visuals.

  state:storeInSessionStorage = ON 


 Management > Kibana > Advanced Settings.


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