Kibana setup

Installation

Download the latest version of Kibana: http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/installation/

By the time of this writting, latest release is v3.1.2

cd /opt
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana/kibana-3.1.2.zip
unzip kibana-3.1.2.zip
rm kibana-3.1.2.zip
ln -s /opt/kibana-3.1.2 /opt/kibana

Configuration

ElasticSearch backend

If Kibana and Logstash are on the same server, then you don't have to change your root configuration!! :-) Otherwise, edit:

cp /opt/kibana/config.js /opt/kibana/config.js.backup
vim /opt/kibana/config.js

Adjust elasticSearch value, ~ line 32.

Dashboard settings

You can init the dashboard configuration from default logstash settings:

cd /opt/kibana/app/dashboard
cp default.json default.json.backup
cp logstash.json default.json

Apache2 configuration

Either you create a new configuration or your update a VirtualHost configuration.

Like Zabbix does, I chose to use a configuration for kibana rather than a VHost change.

cd /etc/apache2/conf-available
vim kibana.conf

Put the following content:

# Kibana application
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
    Alias /kibana /opt/kibana
</IfModule>

<Directory "/opt/kibana">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    Require all granted

    php_value max_execution_time 300
    php_value memory_limit 128M
    php_value post_max_size 16M
    php_value upload_max_filesize 2M
    php_value max_input_time 300
    php_value date.timezone Europe/Stockholm
</Directory>

Enable configuration:

a2enconf kibana
service apache2 reload

Access the Kibana web page on http://192.168.1.203/kibana

If you haven't configure Logstash yet you should see an empty page! :-)