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Access Kibana

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Kibana is an open source analytics and visualization platform designed to search, view, and interact with data stored in Elasticsearch indices.

Tip

Most deployment templates include a Kibana instance, but if it wasn’t part of the initial deployment you can customize your deployment components to add Kibana.

To access Kibana:

  1. Log into the Cloud UI.

  2. On the Deployments page, select your deployment.

    Narrow the list by name, ID, or choose from several other filters. To further define the list, use a combination of filters.

  3. Under Applications, select the Kibana Open link and wait for Kibana to open.

    Note

    Both ports 443 and 9243 can be used to access Kibana. SSO only works with 9243 on older deployments, where you will see an option in the Cloud UI to migrate the default to port 443. In addition, any version upgrade will automatically migrate the default port to 443.

  4. Log into Kibana. Single sign-on (SSO) is enabled between your Elastic Cloud Enterprise account and the Kibana instance. If you’re logged in already, then Kibana opens without requiring you to log in again. However, if your token has expired, choose from one of these methods to log in:

    Tip

    On AWS and not able to access Kibana? Check if you need to update your endpoint URL first.

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. Refer to Cluster or deployment users for more information.