Elastic Stack 9 : Install Kibana2025/08/08

	Install Kibana which is the Data Visualization tool for Elasticsearch.
[1]	Get SSL Certificate, or Create self-signed Certificate. It uses self signed Certificate on this example.
[2]	Install Kibana. Configure Repository for Elasticsearch before it like here.

[root@dlp ~]#

dnf -y install kibana

[root@dlp ~]#

cp /etc/pki/tls/private/{server.crt,server.key} /etc/kibana/

[root@dlp ~]#

chown kibana /etc/kibana/{server.crt,server.key}

# generate an enrollment token for Kibana

[root@dlp ~]#

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token -s kibana

eyJ2ZXIiOiI4LjE0LjAiLCJhZHIiOlsiMTAuMC4wLjMwOjkyMDAiXSwiZmdyIjoiNzllNzA3YjZiNzEwOWJlNTNiNzQ1NzNiNTE0NzM2NTNhOTViNjg5OTI3NmM2NzMxYTdkOGIwY2VhNjFlZmUwNSIsImtleSI6IkxRSHNocGdCelNkTWZxdjdfZW9ROjlMVUt4RlV1VUVEN2lFbUpyWUkyRFEifQ==

# setup Kibana
[root@dlp ~]# /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-setup --enrollment-token \
eyJ2ZXIiOiI4LjE0LjAiLCJhZHIiOlsiMTAuMC4wLjMwOjkyMDAiXSwiZmdyIjoiNzllNzA3YjZiNzEwOWJlNTNiNzQ1NzNiNTE0NzM2NTNhOTViNjg5OTI3NmM2NzMxYTdkOGIwY2VhNjFlZmUwNSIsImtleSI6IkxRSHNocGdCelNkTWZxdjdfZW9ROjlMVUt4RlV1VUVEN2lFbUpyWUkyRFEifQ== 
Kibana configured successfully.

To start Kibana run:
  bin/kibana

[root@dlp ~]#

vi /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

# line 11 : if access to Kibana from other hosts, uncomment and change (listen all)

server.host: "

0.0.0.0

# line 26 : uncomment and specify the public URL of Kibana server

server.publicBaseUrl: "

https://dlp.srv.world:5601/

# line 32 : uncomment and change to your hostname

server.name: "

dlp.srv.world

# line 37-39 : uncomment and change to your certificate

server.ssl.enabled:

true

server.ssl.certificate:

/etc/kibana/server.crt

server.ssl.key:

/etc/kibana/server.key

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable --now kibana

[3]	If Firewalld is running, allow service port.

[root@dlp ~]#

firewall-cmd --add-port=5601/tcp

success
[root@dlp ~]#

firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent

success

[4]	Access to [https://(server's Hostname or IP address):5601/] from any client computer, then Kibana login form is shown. It's possible to login with [elastic] user and password. That's OK if successfully login and Dashboard is shown like follows.

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