KIBANA

What is Kibana?

Kibana is an open source data visualization platform that allows you to interact with your data through stunning, powerful graphics that can be combined into custom dashboards that help you share insights from your data far and wide.

What can we do with this Kibana image?

Actually there is an official Kibana image you can only set the host environment. But you can set all environments with this Kibana image I coded. 

What are these environment variables that we give?

SERVER_BASEPATH
If you are running kibana behind a proxy and want to mount it at a path, specify that path here. The basePath can't end in a slash.

SERVER_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES

The maximum payload size in bytes on incoming server requests.

ELASTICSEARCH_PRESERVE_HOST

Preserve_elasticsearch_host true will send the hostname specified in `elasticsearch`.

KIBANA_INDEX

Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and dashboards. It will create a new index if it doesn't already exist.

KIBANA_DEFAULT_APP_ID

The default application to load.

ELASTICSEARCH_PING_TIMEOUT

Time in milliseconds to wait for elasticsearch to respond to pings, defaults to request_timeout setting

ELASTICSEARCH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT

Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or elasticsearch.

ELASTICSEARCH_SHARD_TIMEOUT

Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards.

ELASTICSEARCH_STARTUP_TIMEOUT

Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying

PID_FILE

Set the path to where you would like the process id file to be created.

LOGGING_DEST

If you would like to send the log output to a file you can set the path below.

LOGGING_SILENT

Set this to true to suppress all logging output.

LOGGING_QUIET

Set this to true to suppress all logging output except for error messages.

LOGGING_VERBOSE

Set this to true to log all events, including system usage information and all requests.

Usage

The basic commands that can be executed:

docker run -d -p 5601:5601 -e ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=your_elasticsearch_host burcina/kibana

If you enter user environment variable, you must enter password environment. 

If you enter password environment variable, you must enter user environment.

docker run -d -p 5601:5601 -e ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=your_elasticsearch_host -e ELASTICSEARCH_USER=your_user -e ELASTICSEARCH_PASS=your_password burcina/kibana

docker run -d -p 5601:5601 -e ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=your_elasticsearch_host -e SERVER_SSL_CERT=/path/to/your/container/server.crt -e SERVER_SSL_KEY=/path/to/your/container/server.key -v /path/to/your/host/cert/:/path/to/container/cert/ -v /path/to/your/host/key/:/path/to/your/container/key/ kibana

The local file path that use in the image (-v) and path(path/to/your/container/) which we define with SERVER_SSL_CERT must be same. The same process is approved also for SERVER_SSL_KEY. 

/path/to/your/host/cert/:/path/to/container/cert/

Before ":" source is the path in our local pc. After ":" is target means that file to be stored.

SERVER_SSL_CERT=/path/to/your/container/server.crt

We can use it as we store in container.

Note: This is Kibana 4.5.4