Using plugins

Plugins are a way to enhance the functionality of Kibana. All the plugins that are installed will be placed in the $KIBANA_HOME/plugins folder. Elastic, the company behind Kibana, provides many plugins that can be installed, and there are quite a number of public plugins that are not maintained by Elastic that can be installed, too.

Installing plugins

Navigate to KIBANA_HOME and execute the install command, as shown in the following code, to install any plugins. During installation, either the name of the plugin can be given (if it's hosted by Elastic itself), or the URL of the location where the plugin is hosted can be given:

$ KIBANA_HOME>bin/kibana-plugin install <package name or URL>

For example...