b. Installing and configuring Kibana

Installing Kibana is quite straight forward

Download and Install Debian package manually

$ wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.8.0-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i kibana-7.8.0-amd64.deb

Modify Configuration file

Edit /etc/kibana/kibana.yml Kibana's configuration file according to your network preferences and leave the rest at it is.

#Listening port
server.port: 5601

#Server's IP
server.host: "192.168.20.222"

#Node Name
server.name: "elk_allinone"

Starting Kibana

$ sudo systemctl start kibana
$ sudo systemctl status kibana
$ sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service

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