1. Introduction to Kibana
Kibana is an open source analysis and visualization platform designed for use with Elasticsearch. You can use Kibana to search and view the data stored in Elasticsearch. The interaction between Kibana and Elasticsearch is a variety of different charts, tables, maps, etc., to display data intuitively, so as to achieve the purpose of advanced data analysis and visualization.
The three technologies of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana are what we often call the ELK technology stack. It can be said that the combination of these three technologies is a very clever design in the field of big data. A very typical MVC idea, model persistence layer, view layer and control layer. Logstash plays the role of the control layer, responsible for collecting and filtering data. Elasticsearch plays the role of the data persistence layer and is responsible for storing data. The topic of our chapter Kibana plays the role of the view layer, has various dimensions of query and analysis, and uses a graphical interface to display the data stored in Elasticsearch.
2. Kibana installation conditions
- Ensure that JDK is installed
- Ensure to install Node
- Ensure that Elasticsearch is installed
2.1 Install JDK
First download and install the JDK (Java Development Kit). JDK is the core of the entire Java development, which includes the Java operating environment, Java tools and Java basic class libraries.
JDK installation steps: "Installation and Configuration of Java Development Environment"
2.2 Install Node
Node download address: Node official download
According to my computer system and bit selection, I choose the windows64 bit .msi format installation package here.
.msi is a program installation file developed by the Windows installer, which allows you to install, modify, and uninstall the programs you have installed. To put it bluntly, .msi is the data package of the Windows installer, which encapsulates all the content related to the installation file in a package.
After the installation is complete, the installation package in .msi format has added node.exe to the system environment variable path. If you downloaded the .zip format, because there is no installation process, you need to manually add the directory where node.exe is located to the environment variable In the path, view the system variable verification.
Verification instruction: node -v
2.3 Install Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a full-text search engine with distributed multi-user capabilities, based on a RESTful web interface. Elasticsearch is developed in the Java language and released as an open source under the terms of the Apache license. It is a popular enterprise search engine.
Elasticsearch installation steps: " Elasticsearch installation under Windows system"
3. Installation of Kibana
(1) Download and unzip Kibana
Kibana download address: Kibana official download
Note: The version of Kibana and Elasticsearch must be the same.
(2) Modify the configuration
Use Notepad to open the configuration file: D:\kibana-7.11.1-windows-x86_64\config\kibana.yml
Set the startup URL of Elasticsearch ( http://127.0.0.1:9200/ ) (in fact, you don’t need to modify the configuration file by default)
# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
#elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"](3) Start Kibana service
Enter the bin directory and double-click to execute the kibana.bat file.
After executing the file, you can see the startup process of Kibana in the window.
(3) Access interface
After Kibana is started, you can type in the address bar of the browser: http://localhost:5601/
4. Sinicization of Kibana
Use Notepad to open the configuration file: D:\kibana-7.11.1-windows-x86_64\config\kibana.yml
Remove #, and change "en" to "zh-CN"
# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.
# Supported languages are the following: English - en , by default , Chinese - zh-CN .
i18n.locale: "zh-CN"Restart, and re-enter in the address bar of the browser: http://localhost:5601/
5. Kibana's tutorial
Official manual: "Kibana User Manual"
Usage tutorial: "Kibana Usage Tutorial"