How to install Kibana and the Kibana console DEPRECATED

⚠️ THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN DEPRECATED! Please refer to https://github.com/GSA/i14y#docker-services for information on running Kibana with Docker.

Installation

$ brew install kibana@5.6

$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/kibana@5.6/<version>/
$ vi config/kibana.yml

elasticsearch.url: "http://localhost:9256"

$ brew services start kibana@5.6

Visit http://localhost:5601 in a browser. You should see the Kibana dashboard.

$ bin/kibana-plugin --install console
$ brew services restart kibana@5.6

Refresh your browser. You should now see the "Dev Tools" tab.

Test a query in the left pane of the Dev Tools console:

GET /_cat/indices

You should see a list of your ES indices in the right pane.