This is my first time installing Kibana on Ubuntu server OS using apt-get and I am facing a problem, can anyone provide guidance?
I am not able to see Kibana from another device browser using http://IP:5601
When I try to access locally on the server which has Kibana installed, I am seeing this
I check the Kibana service and it seems to be running
I also cannot find Kibana logs in /var/log
Need some tips on how to get Kibana to work...
Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them 
Did you change server.host? See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/settings.html
Noted, will not post pictures of text in the future.
server.host is set to localhost.
Ok, so Kibana will only ever listen to loopback addresses, not external ones.
Do you mean that i need to set server.host to the IP address of the server for it work?
If you want to be able to access it from other hosts, yep.
provide this:
elasticsearch.url: "IP_Address:port_no."
#port no to be used specially when the elasticsearch is running at different port no except 9200.If elasticsearch is using 9200 thn no need to provide:
elasticsearch.url: "IP_Address"
next is server host
server.host: "Ip_address of the server on which kibana instance is"
I edited the Kibana yml file:
#server.host: "192.168.1.228"
#elasticsearch.url: "http://192.168.1.228:9200"
then I am getting this error:
poodle@ubuntuserver:/$ curl -X GET "192.168.1.228:9200"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 192.168.1.228 port 9200: Connection refused
poodle@ubuntuserver:/$ curl -X GET "192.168.1.228:5601"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 192.168.1.228 port 5601: Connection refused
Can you check, Is your elasticsearch running? and please remove # in yml,it means a comment.
Yes, I think elasticsearch is running, I got a response form port 9200 using curl...
poodle@ubuntuserver:~$ curl -X GET "localhost:5601"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 5601: Connection refused
poodle@ubuntuserver:~$ curl -X GET "localhost:9200"
{
"name" : "ur_Ay9a",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"cluster_uuid" : "hHsiaHCwSXSkURPB_DoHDw",
"version" : {
"number" : "6.2.4",
"build_hash" : "ccec39f",
"build_date" : "2018-04-12T20:37:28.497551Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "7.2.1",
"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "5.6.0",
"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "5.0.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
poodle@ubuntuserver:~$ curl -X GET "192.168.1.228:5601"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 192.168.1.228 port 5601: Connection refused
poodle@ubuntuserver:~$ curl -X GET "192.168.1.228:9200"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 192.168.1.228 port 9200: Connection refused
I don't see any logfiles created for Kibana...
poodle@ubuntuserver:~$ ls /var/log
alternatives.log btmp dpkg.log installer lastlog ufw.log
apt cloud-init.log elasticsearch journal lxd unattended-upgrades
auth.log cloud-init-output.log faillog kern.log syslog wtmp
bootstrap.log dist-upgrade fontconfig.log landscape tallylog
I've removed most of the comments, this is my yaml file:
poodle@ubuntuserver:~$ sudo vim /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
#Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601
#Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
#The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.
#To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
server.host: "192.168.1.228"
#Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. This only affects
#the URLs generated by Kibana, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests
#to Kibana. This setting cannot end in a slash.
#server.basePath: ""
#The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.
server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576
#The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.
server.name: "ubuntuserver"
#The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.url: "http://192.168.1.228:9200"
#When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host
#setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host
#that connects to this Kibana instance.
elasticsearch.preserveHost: true
#Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and
#dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.
kibana.index: ".kibana"
#The default application to load.
kibana.defaultAppId: "home"
#If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide
#the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana
#index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which
#is proxied through the Kibana server.
#elasticsearch.username: "user"
#elasticsearch.password: "pass"
#Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.
#These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.
#server.ssl.enabled: false
#server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt
#server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key
#Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.
#These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt
#elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key
#Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate
#authority for your Elasticsearch instance.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: [ "/path/to/your/CA.pem" ]
#To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
#elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full
#Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of
#the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.
elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500
#Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value
#must be a positive integer.
elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000
#List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send no client-side
#headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).
elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [ authorization ]
#Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten
#by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.
elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}
#Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.
elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 0
#Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.
elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000
#Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.
pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid
#Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
logging.dest: stdout
#Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.
logging.silent: false
#Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.
logging.quiet: false
#Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information
#and all requests.
logging.verbose: false
#Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance
#metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.
ops.interval: 5000
#The default locale. This locale can be used in certain circumstances to substitute any missing
#translations.
i18n.defaultLocale: "en"
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