How to build Kibana from Source

Artur_Vieira · September 16, 2018, 3:23am

Hi, I recently switched from GA, your product is so nice. Thank you for the hard work.

Here is the issue with why I switched, my use case is not covered! haha, so here I am. I have a use case, I hope you can help. I am trying to due to previous comments having gone unanswered or not included in the roadmap. I am leaving this comment here. Hey, many people have asked this already, why is your team ignoring this request. Turn off Filters. I have now to ask you how do I build your software from source, since you are not able or willing to do it yourself.

I wish you, could spend the 5 minutes to add a checkbox, so when I share my dashboard, peepers cant see data I didnt want them to see.

Super simple. I am sure you understand. You are a data company. Right?

Thank you

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 3:51am

I was able to build it, after making the changes I needed. What is a good image to deploy the binary to docker?

Thank you

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 8:24am

Ok used node:latest, it spun right up.

azasypkin · September 17, 2018, 8:30am

Hi @Artur_Vieira,

Glad you figured that out! Usually you should use Node version mentioned here.

Since you're planning to use your own Docker image, you may find official Kibana Docker docs useful as well.

Let me know if I can help you with anything.

Best,
Oleg

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 8:52am

Hi, great documentation.

So I built it and everything, but there is no Elastic Search in the Management Window.
Official Distro

Built From Source

Everything works, I can do transactions in Dev Tools. GET POST etc... but no new index documents are available in Kibana.

I am building Elastic Search from source as well. Hopefully, there are similar patterns at work.

Thank you.

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 8:58am

azasypkin you dont happen to know the reason for the different screens. I am using the kibana v6.4.0 tag for my builds. The top screenshot is the docker image you mentioned.

azasypkin · September 17, 2018, 9:03am

Built From Source

How and what exactly do you run? The difference I see in screenshots is that you're running OSS version of Kibana/Elasticsearch hence you don't have License Management, Reporting, Index Management etc...

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 9:14am

Well, I just ran the build command for server and ui after bootstrapping the project. I am downloading the Java SDK, the problem probably is version incompatibility.

I see this in Kibana

In Elastic Search there are 5 records.

azasypkin · September 17, 2018, 9:16am

Do you really need to build ES from sources by the way? Can you just use ES snapshot via yarn es snapshot --license trial?

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 9:21am

Shouldn't be a problem, it's really because Kibana has an UX issue in my use case. I wish I could turn off filters for visualizations and dashboards, only if it's an embedded report.

I cannot in the official version, so I had to make adjustments.

Like I said I bootstrapped the app, debugged and then built UI and Server. Now since there is incompatibility issues, I have to build ES from source as well.

I need something stable, so a snapshot might not be the best way to go.

azasypkin · September 17, 2018, 9:24am

Sorry, but it's still not clear to me what incompatibility issues you may have with ES if you just modified Kibana source? If you run yarn es from the KIbana source folder it should always fetch the compatible ES version.

Anyway, if you need help with that strange incompatibility issue just give more details and I can try to help.

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 9:32am

Ok I will try the snapshot. Thank you.

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 11:54am

I was able to launch it in a opensdk docker image, but I think I might be missing a port.

I am not seeing the Web Preview, localhost:9200 is not available.

Both ports 9200 and 9300 are open.

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 12:35pm

Oh it was a config issue.

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 9:42pm

Ok, I am now deploying to my cluster, and I am now running into this error. Any ideas?

Artur_Vieira · September 17, 2018, 10:19pm

A kubernetes config issue, needed more cpu at the beggining

Artur_Vieira · September 19, 2018, 12:15am

Ok, I was able to deploy Elastic Search and Kibana to production. However currently I am unable to setup the security. I am using the trial currently.

Here is the set up currently.
Elastic Search Config.

Kibana

When I look at the logs this is the error.

I would like to have this set up as follows.

I want to be able to login, via this Kibana screen.
I need it to be served over HTTPS, ( the next part, I need to tackle basically ) Done!

Artur_Vieira · September 19, 2018, 3:36am

I rebuilt the cluster and the error is no longer there. However the login page is also not there.

How do I set the Elastic Search and Kibana system, I can actually even specify just Kibana, the login screen. To require login.

system · October 17, 2018, 3:36am

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