How to install and configure Elastic Search, Kibana and Logstash in Ubuntu?

You got big data, millions of record to handle and the load is so huge that RDBMS can not handle it… Then ELK is the way to go.

I am not going to discuss what is ELK or why you should use it. But I will give you the procedure you can follow and get the ELK setup up and running in least possible time.

So let’s start with installing Elastic Search

Step 1: Download and Install Elastic search

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch

Right click on the DEB link and copy link URL.

Execute the following command to download and install latest version of elastic search

wget

https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.5.0.deb

sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-5.5.0.deb

sudo service elasticsearch start

Step 2: Elastic Search Configuration

go to /etc/elasticsearch and open elasticsearch.yml

find host, un-comment the line and change its value to ‘localhost’

remove the # from port, now save the file and restart elasticsearch service.

Step 3: Download and Install Kibana

Right click on the DEB link and copy link URL.

Execute the following command to download and install latest version of kibana

wget

https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-5.5.0-amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i kibana-5.5.0-amd64.deb

sudo service kibana start

Step 4: Kibana Configuration

go to /etc/kibana and open kibana.yml file

remove # from the line server.port, server.host and elasticsearch.url

Step 5: Download and Install logstash

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/logstash

Right click on the DEB link and copy link URL.

Execute the following command to download and install latest version of logstash

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-5.5.0.deb

sudo dpkg -i logstash-5.5.0.deb

sudo service logstash start

I hope the steps have got your ELK environment setup in the machine. We love to share at Third Rock Techkno what we learn with our community.

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