IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
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Install Kibana with RPM

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Install Kibana with RPM

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The RPM for Kibana can be downloaded from our website or from our RPM repository. It can be used to install Kibana on any RPM-based system such as OpenSuSE, SLES, Red Hat, and Oracle Enterprise.

RPM install is not supported on distributions with old versions of RPM, such as SLES 11. Refer to Install from archive on Linux or macOS instead.

This package contains both free and subscription features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the features.

The latest stable version of Kibana can be found on the Download Kibana page. Other versions can be found on the Past Releases page.

Import the Elastic PGP key

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We sign all of our packages with the Elastic Signing Key (PGP key D88E42B4, available from https://pgp.mit.edu) with fingerprint:

4609 5ACC 8548 582C 1A26 99A9 D27D 666C D88E 42B4

Download and install the public signing key:

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

Installing from the RPM repository

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Create a file called kibana.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory for RedHat based distributions, or in the /etc/zypp/repos.d/ directory for OpenSuSE based distributions, containing:

[kibana-8.x]
name=Kibana repository for 8.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md

And your repository is ready for use. You can now install Kibana with one of the following commands:

sudo yum install kibana 
sudo dnf install kibana 
sudo zypper install kibana

Use yum on older Red Hat based distributions.

Use dnf on Fedora and other newer Red Hat distributions.

Use zypper on OpenSUSE based distributions

Download and install the RPM manually

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The RPM for Kibana v8.9.2 can be downloaded from the website and installed as follows:

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-8.9.2-x86_64.rpm
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-8.9.2-x86_64.rpm.sha512
shasum -a 512 -c kibana-8.9.2-x86_64.rpm.sha512 
sudo rpm --install kibana-8.9.2-x86_64.rpm

Compares the SHA of the downloaded RPM and the published checksum, which should output kibana-{version}-x86_64.rpm: OK.

Start Elasticsearch and generate an enrollment token for Kibana

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When you start Elasticsearch for the first time, the following security configuration occurs automatically:

  • Authentication and authorization are enabled, and a password is generated for the elastic built-in superuser.
  • Certificates and keys for TLS are generated for the transport and HTTP layer, and TLS is enabled and configured with these keys and certificates.

The password and certificate and keys are output to your terminal.

You can then generate an enrollment token for Kibana with the elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token tool:

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

Start Kibana and enter the enrollment token to securely connect Kibana with Elasticsearch.

Run Kibana with systemd

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To configure Kibana to start automatically when the system starts, run the following commands:

sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service

Kibana can be started and stopped as follows:

sudo systemctl start kibana.service
sudo systemctl stop kibana.service

These commands provide no feedback as to whether Kibana was started successfully or not. Log information can be accessed via journalctl -u kibana.service.

Configure Kibana via the config file

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Kibana loads its configuration from the /etc/kibana/kibana.yml file by default. The format of this config file is explained in Configuring Kibana.

Directory layout of RPM

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The RPM places config files, logs, and the data directory in the appropriate locations for an RPM-based system:

Type Description Default Location Setting

home

Kibana home directory or $KIBANA_HOME

/usr/share/kibana

bin

Binary scripts including kibana to start the Kibana server and kibana-plugin to install plugins

/usr/share/kibana/bin

config

Configuration files including kibana.yml

/etc/kibana

KBN_PATH_CONF

data

The location of the data files written to disk by Kibana and its plugins

/var/lib/kibana

path.data

logs

Logs files location

/var/log/kibana

path.logs

plugins

Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory.

/usr/share/kibana/plugins

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