Installation (Windows)

Kibana is a Node.js app using the Express Web framework - meaning to us it looks like a web server running on port 5601. If you’re running elasticsearch on the same box, it will connect with the defaults.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/windows.html

Download and Extract

No MSI or installer is available for windows so you must download the .zip from https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana. Uncompress (this will take a while), rename it to ‘Kibana’ and move it to Program Files.

So that you may access it later, edit the config file at {location}/config/kibana.yaml with wordpad and set the server.host entry to:

server.host: "0.0.0.0"

Create a Service

Download the service manager NSSM from https://nssm.cc/download and extract. Start an admin powershell, navigate to the extracted location and run the installation command like so:

C:\Users\alleng\Downloads\nssm-2.24\nssm-2.24\win64> .\nssm.exe install Kibana

In the Pop-Up, set the application path to the below. The start up path will auto populate.

C:\Program Files\Kibana\kibana-7.6.2-windows-x86_64\bin\kibana.bat

Click ‘Install service’ and it should indicate success. Go to the service manager to find and start it. After a minute (Check process manager for the CPU to drop) You should be able to access it at:

http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/home