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

1. Log on to the Elasticsearch console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Elasticsearch Clusters.
3. Navigate to the desired cluster.
   1. In the top navigation bar, select the resource group to which the cluster belongs and the region where the cluster resides.
   2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Elasticsearch Clusters. On the Elasticsearch Clusters page, find the cluster and click its ID.
4. In the left-side navigation pane of the page that appears, click Data Visualization.
5. In the Kibana section, click Access over an Internal Network or Access over the Internet.
   • Access over an Internal Network: The Access over an Internal Network entry is displayed only after you enable the Private Network Access feature for Kibana. This feature is disabled by default. For more information, see Configure a public or private IP address whitelist for Kibana.
   • Access over the Internet: The Access over the Internet entry is displayed only after you enable the Public Network Access feature for Kibana. This feature is enabled by default. For more information, see Configure a public or private IP address whitelist for Kibana.
     Notice If this is the first time you are logging on to the Kibana console from the Access over the Internet entry, and you have not modified the access configuration, the system prompts you to modify the configuration. In the Note message, click Edit Configuration. The Modify Public Network Whitelist panel appears. In this panel, add the IP address of your client to the whitelist. For more information, see Configure a public or private IP address whitelist for Kibana. After you modify the configuration, go back to the Data Visualization page and click Access over the Internet again. Then, the Kibana logon page appears.

     If your client is in a home network or in a LAN of an office, add the IP address of the Internet egress to the whitelist rather than the private IP address of the client. We recommend that you query the IP address of the Internet egress in the IP address geolocation library of Taobao. You can also specify 0.0.0.0/0 as the whitelist. If you make this configuration, all public IPv4 addresses can be used to access the Kibana console. This poses security risks. You must evaluate the risks before you make this configuration.

6. On the Kibana logon page, enter the username and password and click Log in.
   • Username: The default username is elastic. You can also customize the username. For more information, see Use the RBAC mechanism provided by Elasticsearch X-Pack to implement access control.
   • Password: the password of the elastic user. The password of the elastic user is specified when you create the Elasticsearch cluster. If you forget the password, you can reset it. For more information about the procedure and precautions for resetting the password, see Reset the access password for an Elasticsearch cluster.

   After you log on to the Kibana console, you can perform the desired operations. For example, you can query data or create dashboards to present data. For more information, see Kibana Guide.

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?