Installing Kibana

The most well-known Elasticsearch interface is Kibana, and it is always released with Elasticsearch.

Kibana is a pluggable interface and is free to use with Elasticsearch. It provides data visualization, and it can be extended with a commercial product called X-Pack that provides security, graph capabilities, cluster monitoring, and many other features.

In this chapter, we will mainly cover the Kibana core components. Kibana with X-Pack offers a lot of functionalities and, as these are beyond the scope of this book, I suggest that you look for books related to Kibana for a full description of all Kibana's capabilities.

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

If you are installing using Docker Compose, which is available in the ch01 directory, then you don't need to manually install it...