How to Install Elasticsearch 5.2.0 and Kibana 5.2.0 on CentOS 7

Elasticsearch 5.2.0 recently released, is a search engine based on Lucene, providing a distributed full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface. While Kibana 5.2.0 is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster.

See release notes for Elasticsearch v5.2.0 and Kibana v5.2.0 for full details of release.

How to Install Elasticsearch 5.2.0 on CentOS 7, RHEL

Elasticsearch requires Java 8 or later, so lets install latest Java

How to install Java 8 latest update on CentOS

Download and install the Elasticsearch Public Signing Key

sudo rpm --import http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Next create a file called “elasticsearch.repo” in “/etc/yum.repos.d/” directory

sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo

Then add the following config into the repository created above

[elasticsearch-5.x]  name=Elasticsearch repository for 5.x packages  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

Now install Elasticsearch

sudo yum install elasticsearch

Next edit the configuration > locate “network.host:” and update to “network.host: localhost”

sudo vi /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

Start service and set it to auto run on boot up

/etc/init.d/elasticsearch status  sudo chkconfig --levels 235 elasticsearch on

Install Kibana 5.2.0 on CentOS 7, RHEL

Kibana also requires Java 8 or later, so I am assuming you had already done that when you installed Elasticsearch above

How to install Java 8 latest update on CentOS

Download and install the Public Signing Key (Already done from above)

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

Next create a file called “kibana.repo” in “/etc/yum.repos.d/” directory

sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/kibana.repo

Then add the following config into the repository created above

[kibana-5.x]  name=Kibana repository for 5.x packages  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

Now install kibana

sudo yum install kibana

Confirm you can Stop and Start Kibana

sudo -i service kibana stop  sudo -i service kibana start

Check if you are running Systemd or SysV init

ps -p 1

Configure Kibana to start automatically when system reboots.

—– For SysV init —–

sudo chkconfig --add kibana    sudo -i service kibana stop  sudo -i service kibana start

—– For systemd —–

sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload  sudo /bin/systemctl enable kibana.service    sudo systemctl stop kibana.service  sudo systemctl start kibana.service