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Deploy and Configure Kibana for an Elasticsearch Cluster

Kibana has a lot to offer when it comes to working with and managing an Elasticsearch cluster. Perhaps the most powerful tool when interacting with Elasticsearch is the Kibana Console tool. This provides a friendly user experience to interact directly with Elasticsearch APIs by including syntax highlighting and autocomplete to Elasticsearch API syntax. In this hands-on lab, you will be given the opportunity to exercise the following: * Deploy Kibana from an RPM * Configure Kibana's server port * Bind Kibana to a specific network address * Start Kibana * Inspect Kibana logs * Use Kibana's Console tool to interact with Elasticsearch APIs

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 30m

Published

Jul 17, 2020

Challenge

Install Kibana on the master-1 node.
Using the Secure Shell (SSH), log in to the master-1 node as cloud_user via the public IP address.

Become the root user with:
```
sudo su -
```
Download the Kibana 7.6 RPM:
```
curl -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.6.0-x86_64.rpm
```
Install Kibana:
```
rpm --install kibana-7.6.0-x86_64.rpm
```
Configure Kibana to start on system boot:
```
systemctl enable kibana
```
Challenge

Configure Kibana.
Log in to the master-1 node and become the root user with:
```
sudo su -
```
Open the /etc/kibana/kibana.yml file:
```
vim /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
```
Change the following line:
```
#server.port: 5601
```
to
```
server.port: 8080
```
Change the following line:
```
#server.host: "localhost"
```
to
```
server.host: "10.0.1.101"
```
Challenge

Start Kibana.
Log in to the master-1 node and become the root user:
```
sudo su -
```
Start Kibana:
```
systemctl start kibana
```
Challenge

Use Kibana's Console tool.
After Kibana has finished starting up, which may take a few minutes navigate to http://PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS_OF_MASTER-1:8080 in your web browser and navigate to Dev Tools > Console.

Check the node status of the cluster via the console tool with:
```
GET _cat/nodes?v
```

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