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Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana

Clarice Bouwer

Software Engineering Team Lead and Director of Cloudsure

Tuesday, 5 February 2019 · Estimated 4 minute read

An NRT (near-realtime) search platform. It's about a one second delay from the time a document is indexed until it is searchable.

Elasticsearch

Installation

There are a lot of ways to install Elasticsearch and on many different platforms. Pick your flavor. I installed Elasticsearch using instructions for Fedora.

Public signing key

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

Install from repository

Create a file called elasticsearch.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory:

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vim /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo
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[elasticsearch-6.x]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md
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sudo dnf install elasticsearch

Run the service

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sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
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systemctl start elasticsearch.service && systemctl status elasticsearch.service

Checking the status of the service is not good enough. Check the logs in /var/log/elasticsearch/

The service can log information to systemd journal when you remove the --quite option from the ExecStart variable in the elasticsearch.service file.

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find / -name "elasticsearch.service"
vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service
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ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid
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sudo journalctl -f
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sudo journalctl --unit elasticsearch
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sudo journalctl --unit elasticsearch --since  "2016-10-30 18:17:16"

Verify the site is running

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curl -X GET "localhost:9200/"
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{
  "name": "Cp8oag6",
  "cluster_name": "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid": "AT69_T_DTp-1qgIJlatQqA",
  "version": {
    "number": "6.6.0",
    "build_flavor": "default",
    "build_type": "zip",
    "build_hash": "f27399d",
    "build_date": "2016-03-30T09:51:41.449Z",
    "build_snapshot": false,
    "lucene_version": "7.6.0",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version": "1.2.3",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version": "1.2.3"
  },
  "tagline": "You Know, for Search"
}

Kibana

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rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
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vim /etc/yum.repos.d/kibana.repo
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[kibana-6.x]
name=Kibana repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md
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sudo dnf install kibana
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sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable kibana.service
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systemctl start kibana.service && systemctl status kibana.service

Logs at /var/log/kibana/

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curl -X HEAD -I "http://localhost:5601/"
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
location: /app/kibana
kbn-name: kibana
kbn-xpack-sig: b20f9c2acad91a2f8f5ab18dab784428
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
cache-control: no-cache
content-length: 0
connection: close
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 07:28:09 GMT
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curl -X GET "http://localhost:5601/app/kibana"

Reverse Proxy

/etc/kibana/kibana.yml

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# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: ['http://localhost:9200']

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.
# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath
# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.
# This setting cannot end in a slash.
server.basePath: '/kibana'

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with
# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.
# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will
# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.
server.rewriteBasePath: false

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

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# For more information on configuration, see:
#   * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
#   * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

# Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/doc/nginx/README.dynamic.
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile            on;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

    include             /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type        application/octet-stream;

    # Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
    # See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
    # for more information.
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    upstream elasticsearch {
	      server      localhost:9200;
	      keepalive   15;
    }

    upstream kibana {
	      server      localhost:5601;
	      keepalive   15;
    }

    server {
        listen       80 default_server;
        listen       [::]:80 default_server;
        server_name  _;
	      return       301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }

    # Settings for a TLS enabled server.
    server {
        listen       443 ssl http2;
        listen       [::]:443 ssl http2;
        server_name  awesome.sauce;
        root         /www/public/awesome.sauce;

        if ($http_user_agent ~
           (Baiduspider|Yandex|DirBuster|libwww|"")) {
            return 403;
        }

        add_header  Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000";
        access_log   /var/log/nginx/ssl-access.log  combined;
        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/awesome.sauce/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/awesome.sauce/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
        include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
        ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
	      ssl_stapling 	    on;
	      ssl_stapling_verify on;

        # Load configuration files for the default server block.
        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

        location / {
	        root /www/public/awesome.sauce;
        }

        location = /nginx_status {
            stub_status  on;
            access_log   off;
            allow        100.200.100.200;
            deny         all;
        }

        location ~ ^/elastic/(.*)$ {
	        proxy_pass http://elasticsearch/$1;
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header Connection "Keep-Alive";
	        proxy_set_header Proxy-Connection "Keep-Alive";
	        sendfile_max_chunk 512k;
	        proxy_buffering off;
            limit_except GET {
                deny  all;
            }
        }

	      location ~ ^/kibana/(.*)$ {
            proxy_pass http://kibana/$1;
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header Connection "Keep-Alive";
            proxy_set_header Proxy-Connection "Keep-Alive";
            sendfile_max_chunk 512k;
            proxy_buffering on;
            limit_except GET {
                deny  all;
            }
        }
    }
}

Index

Run on the server

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curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/search" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 1
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "_doc" : {
            "properties" : {
                "id" : { "type" : "text" },
                "url" : { "type" : "text" },
                "title" : { "type" : "text" },
                "post" : { "type" : "text" }
            }
        }
    }
}
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Check out the index

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curl -X GET "localhost:9200/search/_mapping/_doc"

Get rid of it?

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curl -X DELETE "localhost:9200/search"

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