Install Kibana with RPM
The RPM for Kibana can be downloaded from our website or from our RPM repository. It can be used to install Kibana on any RPM-based system such as OpenSuSE, SLES, Centos, Red Hat, and Oracle Enterprise.
RPM install is not supported on distributions with old versions of RPM, such as SLES 11 and CentOS 5. Please see Install Kibana with .tar.gz instead.
This package is free to use under the Elastic license. It contains open source and free commercial features and access to paid commercial features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the paid commercial features. See the Subscriptions page for information about Elastic license levels.
The latest stable version of Kibana can be found on the Download Kibana page. Other versions can be found on the Past Releases page.
Import the Elastic PGP Keyedit
We sign all of our packages with the Elastic Signing Key (PGP key D88E42B4, available from https://pgp.mit.edu) with fingerprint:
4609 5ACC 8548 582C 1A26 99A9 D27D 666C D88E 42B4
Download and install the public signing key:
rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
Installing from the RPM repositoryedit
Create a file called kibana.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory for RedHat based distributions, or in the /etc/zypp/repos.d/ directory for OpenSuSE based distributions, containing:
[kibana-6.x] name=Kibana repository for 6.x packages baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/yum gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch enabled=1 autorefresh=1 type=rpm-md
And your repository is ready for use. You can now install Kibana with one of the following commands:
 | Use yum on CentOS and older Red Hat based distributions. |
 | Use dnf on Fedora and other newer Red Hat distributions. |
 | Use zypper on OpenSUSE based distributions |
Download and install the RPM manuallyedit
The RPM for Kibana v6.4.0 can be downloaded from the website and installed as follows:
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-6.4.0-x86_64.rpm shasum -a 512 kibana-6.4.0-x86_64.rpmsudo rpm --install kibana-6.4.0-x86_64.rpm
| Compare the SHA produced by shasum with the published SHA. |
Alternatively, you can download the following package, which contains only features that are available under the Apache 2.0 license: https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-oss-6.4.0-x86_64.rpm
SysV init vs systemdedit
Kibana is not started automatically after installation. How to start and stop Kibana depends on whether your system uses SysV init or systemd (used by newer distributions). You can tell which is being used by running this command:
ps -p 1
Running Kibana with SysV initedit
Use the chkconfig command to configure Kibana to start automatically when the system boots up:
sudo chkconfig --add kibana
You can start and stop Kibana using the service command:
sudo -i service kibana start sudo -i service kibana stop
If Kibana fails to start for any reason, it will print the reason for failure to STDOUT. Log files can be found in /var/log/kibana/.
Running Kibana with systemdedit
To configure Kibana to start automatically when the system boots up, run the following commands:
sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service
Kibana can be started and stopped as follows:
sudo systemctl start kibana.service sudo systemctl stop kibana.service
These commands provide no feedback as to whether Kibana was started successfully or not. Instead, this information will be written in the log files located in /var/log/kibana/.
Configuring Kibana via config fileedit
Kibana loads its configuration from the /etc/kibana/kibana.yml file by default. The format of this config file is explained in Configuring Kibana.
Directory layout of RPMedit
The RPM places config files, logs, and the data directory in the appropriate locations for an RPM-based system:
| Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
|---|---|---|---|
| home | Kibana home directory or $KIBANA_HOME | /usr/share/kibana | |
| bin | Binary scripts including kibana to start the Kibana server and kibana-plugin to install plugins | /usr/share/kibana/bin | |
| config | Configuration files including kibana.yml | /etc/kibana | |
| data | The location of the data files written to disk by Kibana and its plugins | /var/lib/kibana | path.data |
| optimize | Transpiled source code. Certain administrative actions (e.g. plugin install) result in the source code being retranspiled on the fly. | /usr/share/kibana/optimize | |
| plugins | Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. | /usr/share/kibana/plugins |