Configuring Kibana

The last piece of the Elastic Stack is Kibana; the configuration is handled by /etc/kibana/kibana.yml in a similar way to Elasticsearch and Logstash.

Kibana YAML

By default, Kibana listens on port 5601; this is controlled by the server.port parameter, which can be changed if there's a need to access Kibana on a different port. For this setup, the default will be used.

The server.host setting controls which addresses Kibana will listen to for requests. Since access is needed from external sources (that is, other than localhost), we can use the following setting:

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
 # The default is 'localhost...