- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 7.12
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Development tools settings
- Graph settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Machine learning settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Secure settings
- Search sessions settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Embed Kibana content in a web page
- Configure monitoring
- Configure security
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboard
- Canvas
- Maps
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Observability
- APM
- Elastic Security
- Dev Tools
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- Fleet
- Reporting
- Alerting and Actions
- REST API
- Kibana plugins
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Developer guide
Set up
editSet up
editThis section includes information on how to setup Kibana and get it running, including:
- Downloading
- Installing
- Starting
- Configuring
- Upgrading
Supported platforms
editPackages of Kibana are provided for and tested against Linux, Darwin, and Windows. Since 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.
Elasticsearch version
editKibana should be configured to run against an Elasticsearch node of the same version. This is the officially supported configuration.
Running different major version releases of Kibana and Elasticsearch (e.g. Kibana 5.x and Elasticsearch 2.x) is not supported, nor is running a minor version of Kibana that is newer than the version of Elasticsearch (e.g. Kibana 5.1 and Elasticsearch 5.0).
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 5.0 and Elasticsearch 5.1). 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 5.0.0 and Elasticsearch 5.0.1) is generally supported, though we encourage users to run the same versions of Kibana and Elasticsearch down to the patch version.
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