Installation of X-Pack
To install X-Pack, you need to have installed Elasticsearch 5.0 and Kibana 5.0 onwards. Also, you must run the version of X-Pack that matches the version of Elastic Stack that you are running.
For the installation of Elasticsearch, you can refer to the Installation of Elasticsearch section in Chapter 1 , Overview of the Stack. For the installation of Kibana, you can refer to the Installation of Kibana section in Chapter 1 , Overview of the Stack. X-Pack will be installed in both Elasticsearch and Kibana, for which the Elasticsearch plugin and Kibana plugin will be used.
Installing X-Pack in Elasticsearch
In order to install X-Pack in Elasticsearch, refer to the following steps:
- Install X-Pack while running the following command from the Elasticsearch installation directory -
bin/elasticsearch-plugin install x-pack
.Note
Run the installation as a superuser if you are using DEB/RPM distributions.
During installation, it will ask you to grant extra permissions to X-Pack,...