Access Kibanaedit
Kibana is a free and open analytics and visualization platform designed to search, view, and interact with data stored in Elasticsearch indices. The use of Kibana is included with your subscription.
For new Elasticsearch clusters at version 5.0 and later, we automatically create a Kibana instance for you.
To access Kibana:
- Log in to the Elasticsearch Service Console.
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On the Deployments page, select your deployment.
On the deployments page you can narrow your deployments by name, ID, or choose from several other filters. To customize your view, use a combination of filters, or change the format from a grid to a list.
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Under Applications, select the Kibana Launch link and wait for Kibana to open.
The default port 9243 of the resulting URL can be also changed to 443.
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Log into Kibana:
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For versions 7.7 and later: Single sign-on (SSO) is enabled between your Cloud account and the Kibana instance, most likely you are logged in already and Kibana just opens. However, if your token has expired, choose from one of these methods to log in:
- Select Login with Cloud. You’ll need to log in with your Cloud account credentials and then you’ll be redirected to Kibana.
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Log in with the
elasticsuperuser. The password was provided when you created your cluster or can be reset. - You can also log in with any users you created in Kibana already.
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For version 5.0 to 7.6: Log in with the
elasticsuperuser. The password was provided when you created your cluster or can be reset. Or you can also log in with any users you created in Kibana already.
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In production systems, you might need to control what Elasticsearch data users can access through Kibana, so you need create credentials that can be used to access the necessary Elasticsearch resources. This means granting read access to the necessary indexes, as well as access to update the .kibana index.
If you use a version before 5.0 or if your cluster didn’t include a Kibana instance initially, there might not be a Kibana endpoint URL shown, yet. To gain access, all you need to do is enable Kibana first.
Enable Kibanaedit
If you use an Elasticsearch version before 5.0 or if your deployment didn’t include a Kibana instance initially, use these instructions to enable Kibana first. For new Elasticsearch clusters that use version 5.0 and later, we automatically create a Kibana instance for you that you can access directly. The use of Kibana is included with your subscription.
To enable Kibana on your deployment:
- For Elasticsearch versions before 5.0: Make sure you have Shield enabled.
- Log in to the Elasticsearch Service Console.
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Find your deployment on the home page in the Elasticsearch Service card and select Manage to access it directly. Or, select Hosted deployments to go to the deployments page to view all of your deployments.
On the deployments page you can narrow your deployments by name, ID, or choose from several other filters. To customize your view, use a combination of filters, or change the format from a grid to a list.
- From your deployment menu, go to the Kibana page.
- Select Enable.
Enabling Kibana provides you with an endpoint URL, where you can access Kibana. It can take a short while to provision Kibana right after you select Enable, so if you get an error message when you first access the endpoint URL, wait a bit and try again.
Reportingedit
For Elasticsearch 2.4 and later: Reporting is available in Elasticsearch Service and enables you generate reports that contain Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and saved searches. For more information, check getting started with reporting.