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Step 4: Set up the Kibana dashboardsedit
Packetbeat comes packaged with example Kibana dashboards, visualizations,
and searches for visualizing Packetbeat data in Kibana. Before you can use
the dashboards, you need to create the index pattern, packetbeat-*, and
load the dashboards into Kibana. To do this, you can either run the setup
command (as described here) or
configure dashboard loading in the
packetbeat.yml config file.
Starting with Beats 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API. This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration. You should have configured the endpoint earlier when you configured Packetbeat. If you didn’t, configure it now.
Make sure Kibana is running before you perform this step. If you are accessing a secured Kibana instance, make sure you’ve configured credentials as described in Step 2: Configure Packetbeat.
To set up the Kibana dashboards for Packetbeat:
deb, rpm, and mac:
From the directory where you installed Packetbeat, run:
./packetbeat setup --dashboards
If you changed ownership of the config file to root, you’ll need preface this
command with sudo.
docker:
docker run docker.elastic.co/beats/packetbeat:6.0.1 setup --dashboards
win:
Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
From the PowerShell prompt, change to the directory where you installed Packetbeat, and run:
PS > packetbeat setup --dashboards