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Dashboard Visualiser - Kibana

Kibana is a visualisation tool forming part of the Elastic (ELK) Stack for creating dashboards by querying data from ElasticSearch.

Environment Variables

Listed in this page are all environment variables needed to run Kibana.

Variable Name
Type
Relevance
Required
Default

ES_KIBANA_SYSTEM

String

ElasticSearch auth username

Yes

KIBANA_INSTANCES

Number

Number of service replicas

No

1

KIBANA_YML_CONFIG

String

Path to the service configuration file

No

kibana-kibana.yml

KIBANA_USERNAME

String

Service username

No

elastic

KIBANA_PASSWORD

String

Service password

No

dev_password_only

KIBANA_SSL

Boolean

SSL protocol requirement

No

True

KIBANA_CONFIG_FILE

String

Path to the dashboard import file

No

kibana-export.ndjson

KIBANA_MEMORY_LIMIT

String

RAM usage limit

No

3G

KIBANA_MEMORY_RESERVE

String

Reserved RAM

No

500M

Local Development

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Accessing the Service

Kibana - http://127.0.0.1:5601/arrow-up-right

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Importing Saved Objects

The config importer will import the file kibana-export.ndjson that exists in the folder <path to project packages>/dashboard-visualiser-kibana/importer.

The saved objects that will be imported are the index patterns and dashboards. If you made any changes to these objects please don't forget to export them and save the file kibana-export.ndjson under the folder specified above.