Install Kibana 5.0 on Centos 6.8

Steps to install Kibana 5.0 on Centos 6.8

Prerequisite

Kibana 5.0 will require java version 1.8.0_73 you can use either oracle JDK or OpenJDK, you can run this to install OpenJDK version

yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk

Install ElasticSearch

Download and Install Public Signing Key

rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Then use the following script to create a file called ELK5.repo on /etc/yum.repos.d and fill it with ELK 5.0 repository information

echo '[ELK-5.x]
name=ELK repository for 5.x packages (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash)
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md
' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/ELK5.repo

then continue to install kibana

sudo yum install kibana

Test Installation

Now you can start kibana using

service kibana start

and test it using

service kibana status

the result would be like this if the kibana server is successfully run

[root@localhost ~]# service kibana status
kibana is running

Other way to test it is by hitting the kibana site on ipaddress:5601 (based on default configuration, kibana will use port 5601)