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Install Kibana

Self Managed

Kibana provides the user interface for all Elastic solutions. It’s a powerful tool for visualizing and analyzing your data, and for managing and monitoring the Elastic Stack. Although Kibana is not required to use Elasticsearch, it's required for most use cases.

This section includes information on how to set up Kibana and get it running, including:

  • Downloading and installing Kibana
  • Enrolling Kibana with an Elasticsearch cluster
  • Configuring Kibana

To quickly set up Elasticsearch and Kibana in Docker for local development or testing, jump to Local development installation (quickstart).

Packages of Kibana are provided for and tested against Linux, Darwin, and Windows. Because Kibana runs on Node.js, we include the necessary Node.js binaries for these platforms. Running Kibana against a separately maintained version of Node.js is not supported.

To support certain older Linux platforms (most notably CentOS7/RHEL7), Kibana for Linux ships with a custom build of Node.js with glibc 2.17 support. For details, see Custom builds of Node.js.

Kibana is provided in the following package formats:

Format Description Instructions
tar.gz The tar.gz packages are provided for installation on Linux and Darwin and are the easiest choice for getting started with Kibana. Install from archive on Linux or macOS
zip The zip package is the only supported package for Windows. Install on Windows
deb The deb package is suitable for Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based systems. Debian packages may be downloaded from the Elastic website or from our Debian repository. Install with Debian package
rpm The rpm package is suitable for installation on Red Hat, SLES, OpenSuSE and other RPM-based systems. RPMs may be downloaded from the Elastic website or from our RPM repository. Install with RPM
docker Images are available for running Kibana as a Docker container. They may be downloaded from the Elastic Docker Registry. Running Kibana on Docker

When installing the Elastic Stack, you must use the same version across the entire stack. For example, if you are using Elasticsearch 9.0.0, you install Beats 9.0.0, APM Server 9.0.0, Elasticsearch Hadoop 9.0.0, Kibana 9.0.0, and Logstash 9.0.0.

If you’re upgrading an existing installation, see Upgrade for information about how to ensure compatibility with 9.0.0.

Running different major version releases of Kibana and Elasticsearch (e.g. Kibana 9.x and Elasticsearch 8.x) is not supported, nor is running a minor version of Kibana that is newer than the version of Elasticsearch (e.g. Kibana 8.14 and Elasticsearch 8.13).

Running a minor version of Elasticsearch that is higher than Kibana will generally work in order to facilitate an upgrade process where Elasticsearch is upgraded first (e.g. Kibana 8.14 and Elasticsearch 8.15). In this configuration, a warning will be logged on Kibana server startup, so it’s only meant to be temporary until Kibana is upgraded to the same version as Elasticsearch.

Running different patch version releases of Kibana and Elasticsearch (e.g. Kibana 9.0.0 and Elasticsearch 9.0.1) is generally supported, though we encourage users to run the same versions of Kibana and Elasticsearch down to the patch version.

If you're deploying the Elastic Stack in a self-managed cluster, then install the Elastic Stack products you want to use in the following order:

Installing in this order ensures that the components each product depends on are in place.

Refer to Elastic Stack third-party dependencies for the complete list of dependencies.