I am trying to install the ELK stack for the first time on AWS running Ubuntu 14.0.4 and using apt to install the latest stable packages and am running into some difficulties. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Elasticsearch seems to install just fine- if I curl http://localhost:9200 I get a nicely formatted bit of descriptive text. But starting Kibana (on the command line) yields:{"name":"Kibana","hostname":"ip-172-31-32-8","pid":3515,"level":60,"err":{"message":"unknown error","name":"Error","stack":"Error: unknown error\n at respond (/opt/kibana/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:237:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/opt/kibana/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector. (/opt/kibana/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/opt/kibana/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/node_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at _stream_readable.js:944:16\n at process._tickCallback (node.js:442:13)"},"msg":"","time":"2016-04-16T03:30:25.153Z","v":0}
The kibana.yml file appears OK:
Kibana is served by a back end server. This controls which port to use.
port: 5601
The host to bind the server to.
host: "localhost"
The Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200"
preserve_elasticsearch_host true will send the hostname specified in elasticsearch. If you set it to false,
then the host you use to connect to this Kibana instance will be sent.
elasticsearch_preserve_host: false
Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations
and dashboards. It will create a new index if it doesn't already exist.
kibana_index: ".kibana"
If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic auth, this is the user credentials
used by the Kibana server to perform maintence on the kibana_index at statup. Your Kibana
users will still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch (which is proxied thorugh
the Kibana server)
kibana_elasticsearch_username: user
kibana_elasticsearch_password: pass
If your Elasticsearch requires client certificate and key
kibana_elasticsearch_client_crt: /path/to/your/client.crt
kibana_elasticsearch_client_key: /path/to/your/client.key
If you need to provide a CA certificate for your Elasticsarech instance, put
the path of the pem file here.
ca: /path/to/your/CA.pem
The default application to load.
default_app_id: "discover"
Time in milliseconds to wait for elasticsearch to respond to pings, defaults to
request_timeout setting
ping_timeout: 1500
Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or elasticsearch.
This must be > 0
request_timeout: 300000