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16. The name of your system should display, and elasticsearch for the cluster name. This indicates that Elasticsearch is functional and is listening on port 9200.

Install Kibana

1.  Run the following command to install Kibana:

sudo apt-get install kibana

2. Allow the process to finish. Once finished, it’s time to configure Kibana. Next, open the kibana.yml configuration file for editing:

sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

3.  Delete the # sign at the beginning of the following lines to activate them:

#server.port: 5601

#server.host: "your-hostname"

#elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

4. The above-mentioned lines should look as follows:

server.port: 5601

server.host: "localhost"

elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

5. Save the file

6.  Start the Kibana service:

sudo systemctl start kibana

7. Next, configure Kibana to launch at boot if you want

sudo systemctl enable kibana

8. If the UFW firewall is enabled on your Ubuntu system, you need to allow traffic on port 5601 to access the Kibana dashboard. In a terminal window, run the following command:

sudo ufw allow 5601/tcp

9. To access Kibana, open a web browser and browse to the following address:

http://<serverIP>:5601

10 .If you receive a “Kibana server not ready yet” error, Wait for some time ,check if the Elasticsearch and Kibana services are active. 

Configure Kibana for the dashboard