# ELK on PUTTY RHEL/CentOS?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-on-putty-rhel-centos/88583>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-on-putty-rhel-centos/88583 "2017-06-07T12:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![atharvajava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@atharvajava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atharvajava)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-on-putty-rhel-centos/88583/1 "2017-06-07T12:41:38Z")

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Hi,

I just started exploring elastic search and was trying to install the ELK stack via putty but I wanted to know that is it possible to run it and get something out of it by using pure CLI for learning purpose as I currently don't have GUI access. Wherever I see on web I see the Kibana GUI dashboard.

Thanks  
Any Help appreciated 🙂

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**Author:** ![Julien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/julien/32/19688_2.png) [@Julien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Julien)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-on-putty-rhel-centos/88583/2 "2017-06-07T21:40:38Z")

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Hi Atharva,

Installation of the Elastic Stack on headless servers using CLI is the normal way of installation...  
There are several ways to install, you might use the tar.gz files or the RPM  
You can also use apt-get - links here for RPM, you will find tar.gz on the navigation menu: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html)  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/rpm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/rpm.html)  
For logstash:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/installing-logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/installing-logstash.html)  
Metricbeat (similar for other beats):  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-installation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-installation.html)

Related to Kibana GUI dashboard, this is a very neat graphical interface to read data (dashboard is made of several visualisations), Kibana also includes Console which is a nice Rest client which can help you build queries. However elasticsearch is Restful, so you can run the same queries with curl, documentation often uses curl (assuming you left default of listening to loopback address in elasticsearch.yml)  
curl -X GET [http://localhost:9200/](http://localhost:9200/)

Hope this helps you get started, you will find some nice videos on youtube and I would recommend [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/getting-started.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-on-putty-rhel-centos/88583/3 "2017-07-05T21:40:54Z")

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