# How to run Kibana 4.4.1 on IBM Bluemix PaaS

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana-4-4-1-on-ibm-bluemix-paas/44433>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 15, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana-4-4-1-on-ibm-bluemix-paas/44433 "2016-03-15T13:38:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![apt275](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@apt275](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/apt275)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana-4-4-1-on-ibm-bluemix-paas/44433/1 "2016-03-15T13:38:25Z")

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I am trying to run Kibana 4.4.1 on an IBM Bluemix PaaS as a nodejs application. In my implementation, i use cloudfoundry to connect to the PaaS cloud.

I was able to run Kibana 4.1.1 on PaaS using the following steps

```
> Download Kibana from here to your personal desktop:
> https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.1.1-windows.zip
> Extract the files using WinZip and navigate to /src/config/index.js
> Modify the following line from:
> // Set defaults for config file stuff
> kibana.port = kibana.port || 5601;
> To the following:
> kibana.port = process.env.PORT || 5601;

> Once the change has been made save the file.

> Navigate to the folder /src/ and create a new file called manifest.yml. The contents of this file should be the following:

> ---
> applications:
> - name: %name%
> host: %name%
> memory: %memory%
> domain: asdy.gfbryb..mybluemix.net
> instances: 1
> command: node ./bin/kibana.js
> env:
> NODE_ENV: production
> CONFIG_PATH: ./config/kibana.yml

> This file will tell Blue Mix how to run this application once uploaded. The %name% should be the same as the application name within Blue Mix. For %memory% use an increment of 128M, 256M, 512M.

> Navigate to the folder /src/config/ and open the file kibana.yml. Add the following lines to the end of the file:

> bundled_plugin_ids:
> - plugins/dashboard/index
> - plugins/discover/index
> - plugins/doc/index
> - plugins/kibana/index
> - plugins/markdown_vis/index
> - plugins/metric_vis/index
> - plugins/settings/index
> - plugins/table_vis/index
> - plugins/vis_types/index
> - plugins/visualize/index

> In the same file we need to update the variable “elasticsearch_url” to point to the virtual machine’s IP:

> elasticsearch_url: "http://<Virtual Machine IP>:9200"

> Save the file when finished.

> Download the Cloud Foundary Command Line Interface (CF CLI) here:

> https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/releases

> Once CF CLI has been installed follow the steps from the webpage we need to connect to Blue Mix. Open up command prompt on your computer by navigating to Start -> Run and typing in “CMD”:

>  

> To connect to Blue Mix use the command “cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net”:
>  

> Log in to Blue Mix “cf login –u user_name –o org_name –s space_name”:
>  

> User_name is your login for Blue Mix
> Org_name is the organization that will house the application(s)
> Space_name is the folder which the application will be stored

> To upload the application use the command cf push in the following syntax “cf push appname –m 512m”
>  

> When pushing the application make sure the directory is the /src/ folder of kibana.

```

but these steps dont work for Kibana 4.4.1 as the directory structure is completely different. I tried to push Kibana to PaaS by moving to the src folder and typing the `cf push` command, but it fails to upload.

Has anyone tried to do this?

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**Author:** ![apt275](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@apt275](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/apt275)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana-4-4-1-on-ibm-bluemix-paas/44433/2 "2016-03-16T19:00:58Z")

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finally figured it out. all you have to do is

create `manifest.yml` next to `package.json`

```
---
applications:
- name: %name_of_app%
  memory: 512M
  host: %name_of_app%
  domain: %name_of_domain%

```

create a `Procfile` next to `package.json`

```
web: bin/kibana --port $PORT

```

and we are done 🙂

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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 6, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana-4-4-1-on-ibm-bluemix-paas/44433/3 "2017-07-06T13:58:54Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:58pm UTC