After you purchase an Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch cluster, Alibaba Cloud provides a free Kibana node with one vCPU and 2 GiB of memory. You can also purchase a Kibana node with higher specifications. You can perform operations such as data queries and data visualization in the Kibana console. This topic describes how to log on to the Kibana console.
Background information
The Kibana console provided by Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch allows you to expand your business. The Kibana console is seamlessly integrated into Elasticsearch. You can use the Kibana console to view the status of your Elasticsearch cluster in real time and manage the cluster.
Prerequisites
- An Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch cluster is created.
For more information, see Create an Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch cluster.
- The Public Network Access or Private Network Access feature is enabled for the Kibana
console. By default, the Public Network Access feature is enabled.
For more information, see Configure a public or private IP address whitelist for Kibana.
- The language of the Kibana console is English. The default language is English. If
the language is not English, change the language to English.
For more information, see Configure the language of the Kibana console.
Procedure
FAQ
- How do I log on to the Kibana console? What are the username and password?
- What is the password of the elastic account used for?
- Can I use the Kibana console to access Internet services such as Baidu Maps and AMAP?
- How do I manage permissions in the Kibana console?
- What do I do if the Kibana console fails to start and displays the "Kibana server is not ready yet" message?
- What do I do if the "Maximum call stack size exceeded" error is reported when I use the Kibana console?
- An error is reported when I log on to the Kibana console, but I want to delete data from my cluster in the Kibana console. What do I do?
- What do I do if I cannot access the Dev Tools page in the Kibana console?
- How do I view the information of shards and indexes in the Kibana console?
- When I use the elastic account to create a user in the Kibana console, the "You do not have permission to manage users" message is displayed. What do I do?
- Can I install custom plug-ins for Kibana?
- In which Kibana versions can I change the language of the Kibana console?