Installing and configuring Kibana

Elasticsearch does not ship with a GUI, but rather an API. To add a GUI to Elasticsearch, you can use Kibana. By using Kibana, you can better manage and interact with Elasticsearch. Kibana will allow you to access the Elasticsearch API in a GUI, but more importantly, you can use it to build visualizations and dashboards of your data held in Elasticsearch. To install Kibana, take the following steps:

1. Using wget, add the key:

   wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

2. Then, add the repository along with it:

   echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

3. Lastly, update apt and install Kibana:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install kibana

4. The configuration files for Kibana are located in etc/kibana and the application is in /usr/share/kibana/bin. To launch Kibana, run the following:

   bin/kibana

5. When Kibana...