Kibana

Kibana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform for Elasticsearch. Kibana lets you perform advanced data analysis and visualize data in a variety of charts, tables, and maps. You can use it to search, view, and interact with data stored in Elasticsearch indices.

Requirements

• Kubernetes >= 1.20.0
• Kustomize >= v3.3.X

Image repository and tag

• Kibana image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.16.2
• Kibana repo: kibana on Github
• Kibana documentation: Kibana at elastic.co

Configuration

• Replica number: 1
• Listens on port 5601
• Resource limits are 300m for CPU and 800Mi for memory
• Secured by securiyContext (running as non-root, removed all Linux capabilities)

Deployment

You can deploy Kibana by running the following command in the root of the project:

kustomize build | kubectl apply -f -

To learn how to constrain Kibana deployment please see the example.

Accessing Kibana UI

You can access Kibana web UI by port-forwarding on port 5601:

kubectl port-forward svc/kibana 5601:5601 --namespace logging

Kibana will be available on http://127.0.0.1:5601 from your browser.

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