Will you please be able to guide me as to what I need to do - in kibana and SolarWinds - to get it running inside the web interface as shown in the image?
That'll get you going using docker images locally. I'm running on a Mac and the installation was super quick and easy. Basically get Docker installed on your system then use the Elastic docker image to get ES running on your machine.
Okay so, with the help of a friend, I was able to download and docker run it.
Nothing really changed much.
I still got the "no living connections" thing.
Hey there, you can also try creating this docker-compose.yml file, cd into the directory which contains this file, and run docker-compose up. This should run Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and a few Beats. Please let me know if this helps!
Those messages are there just to show that Kibana, Filebeat, Metricbeat, Packbeat, and Heartbeat are active and generating network activity. Have you tried visiting http://localhost:5601?
BTW, I'm not sure if you've already seen this, but here are links to our official Docker documentation:
Kindly make sure you are installing the correct versions of ES and Kibana. Some versions don't work with others; I would suggest downloading the latest versions for each.
Also regarding your last message, going to localhost:9200 and seeing that means that ES is up and running. You may have closed your cluster, or Elasticsearch, and that is why you are unable to see that JSON anymore.
If you go to Elasticsearch's doc (on their website), you will be able to find clear and very straight forward steps to install both Kibana and ES. As far as I know, you do not need to use any other applications or even docker to get these two running together.
Also kindly note that if you were to install them both together, this means Kibana will be reading the data off of Elasticsearch, because that is the default settings for Kibana; it will be listening on port 9200.
As far as I know, you can't use Kibana with other indexers or search engines so simply. This also goes for embedding your Kibana dashboards/graphs. You will find within Kibana URLs to use in iframes, sure, but it wont be as reliable/customizable as you would image.
If I were you, before going into setting up Kibana and ES, I would first read the documentations on Elasticsearch's website. They are very, very, VERY helpful.
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