Kibana as a site plugin

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Referencing the post at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elasticsearch/L9WtITL63Lo/kGi1rTWbSbIJ I am
curious:

To install Kibana as a site plugin, it says to "Try to install it under
/plugins/kibana3/_site"

Does this mean I should have an installation as follows:

.../plugins/kibana3/_site/kibana-3.1.0/...

where kibana-3.1.0 is the root directory in the .gz archive?

Thanks!

Brian

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Not sure about the downsides of running Kibana as a site plugin, but here's
how I got it to work so that others can perform create and run our initial
evaluations with ease.

The Elasticsearch bin/plugin command doesn't seem to read the location into
which I have put my configuration, and it's not necessary anyway. But it
was very helpful to determine the exact directory structure.

First, I store the current versions of Elasticsearch and kibana in the /opt
tree. The config directory contains updated versions of ES configurations
that are suggested for use by a deployment, but the actual versions used
will be outside of this directory tree and will likely be maintained by
Puppet or similar tool. The plugins directory is where I have configured ES
to look for plugins; as Kibana3 shows, the version of the plugins does not
need to be tied directly to a specific version of ES even though this is
the case when the plugin uses the Java API and not the REST API.

$ ls -1 /opt/elk/current
bin
config
elasticsearch-1.2.1
kibana-3.1.0
logs
plugins

So "installing" Kibana-3.1.0 as a site plugin was a simple matter of:

$ mkdir /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3
$ ln -s /opt/elk/current/kibana-3.1.0 /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site

Verifying the link:

$ ls -l /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site
lrwxr-xr-x 1 brian admin 33 Jun 11 14:16
/opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site -> /opt/elk/current/kibana-3.1.0

Now it's just as if Kibana was installed directly into the plugins
directory, but it didn't need to be stored there physically.

Brian

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Great tip, thanks for sharing that :slight_smile:

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: markw@campaignmonitor.com
web: www.campaignmonitor.com

On 13 June 2014 01:25, Brian brian.from.fl@gmail.com wrote:

Not sure about the downsides of running Kibana as a site plugin, but
here's how I got it to work so that others can perform create and run our
initial evaluations with ease.

The Elasticsearch bin/plugin command doesn't seem to read the location
into which I have put my configuration, and it's not necessary anyway. But
it was very helpful to determine the exact directory structure.

First, I store the current versions of Elasticsearch and kibana in the /opt
tree. The config directory contains updated versions of ES configurations
that are suggested for use by a deployment, but the actual versions used
will be outside of this directory tree and will likely be maintained by
Puppet or similar tool. The plugins directory is where I have configured ES
to look for plugins; as Kibana3 shows, the version of the plugins does not
need to be tied directly to a specific version of ES even though this is
the case when the plugin uses the Java API and not the REST API.

$ ls -1 /opt/elk/current
bin
config
elasticsearch-1.2.1
kibana-3.1.0
logs
plugins

So "installing" Kibana-3.1.0 as a site plugin was a simple matter of:

$ mkdir /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3
$ ln -s /opt/elk/current/kibana-3.1.0
/opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site

Verifying the link:

$ ls -l /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site
lrwxr-xr-x 1 brian admin 33 Jun 11 14:16
/opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site -> /opt/elk/current/kibana-3.1.0

Now it's just as if Kibana was installed directly into the plugins
directory, but it didn't need to be stored there physically.

Brian

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