Running Kibana
editRunning Kibana
editChange to your local Kibana directory. Start the development server.
yarn start
On Windows, you’ll need to use Git Bash, Cygwin, or a similar shell that exposes the
sh
command. And to successfully build you’ll need Cygwin optional packages zip, tar, and shasum.
Now you can point your web browser to http://localhost:5601 and start
using Kibana! When running yarn start
, Kibana will also log that it
is listening on port 5603 due to the base path proxy, but you should
still access Kibana on port 5601.
By default, you can log in with username elastic
and password
changeme
. See the --help
options on yarn es <command>
if
you’d like to configure a different password.
Running Kibana in Open-Source mode
editIf you’re looking to only work with the open-source software, supply the
license type to yarn es
:
yarn es snapshot --license oss
And start Kibana with only open-source code:
yarn start --oss
Unsupported URL Type
editIf you’re installing dependencies and seeing an error that looks something like
Unsupported URL Type: link:packages/elastic-eslint-config-kibana
you’re likely running npm
. To install dependencies in Kibana you
need to run yarn kbn bootstrap
. For more info, see
Setting Up Your
Development Environment above.
Customizing config/kibana.dev.yml
editThe config/kibana.yml
file stores user configuration directives.
Since this file is checked into source control, however, developer
preferences can’t be saved without the risk of accidentally committing
the modified version. To make customizing configuration easier during
development, the Kibana CLI will look for a config/kibana.dev.yml
file if run with the --dev
flag. This file behaves just like the
non-dev version and accepts any of the
standard
settings.
Potential Optimization Pitfalls
edit- Webpack is trying to include a file in the bundle that I deleted and is now complaining about it is missing
- A module id that used to resolve to a single file now resolves to a directory, but webpack isn’t adapting
- (if you discover other scenarios, please send a PR!)
Setting Up SSL
editKibana includes self-signed certificates that can be used for
development purposes in the browser and for communicating with
Elasticsearch: yarn start --ssl
& yarn es snapshot --ssl
.