Elasticsearch Getting started with Elasticsearch Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana on CentOS 7

Example

In order to run Elasticsearch, a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required on the machine. Elasticsearch requires Java 7 or higher and recommends Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_73.

So, be sure if you have Java in your system. If not, then follow the procedure:

# Install wget with yum 
yum -y install wget

# Download the rpm jre-8u60-linux-x64.rpm for 64 bit 
wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u60-b27/jre-8u60-linux-x64.rpm"

# Download the rpm jre-8u101-linux-i586.rpm for 32 bit
wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u101-b13/jre-8u101-linux-i586.rpm"

# Install jre-.*.rpm
rpm -ivh jre-.*.rpm

Java should be installed by now in your centOS system. You can check it with:

java -version

Download & install elasticsearch

# Download elasticsearch-2.3.5.rpm 
wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/distribution/rpm/elasticsearch/2.3.5/elasticsearch-2.3.5.rpm

# Install elasticsearch-.*.rpm
rpm -ivh elasticsearch-.*.rpm   

Running elasticsearch as a systemd service on startup

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch
sudo systemctl start elasticsearch

# check the current status to ensure everything is okay.
systemctl status elasticsearch

Installing Kibana

First import GPG-key on rpm

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

Then create a local repository kibana.repo

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

And Add the following content:

[kibana-4.4]
name=Kibana repository for 4.4.x packages
baseurl=http://packages.elastic.co/kibana/4.4/centos
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1

Now install the kibana by following command:

yum -y install kibana

Start it with:

systemctl start kibana

Check status with:

systemctl status kibana

You may run it as a startup service.

systemctl enable kibana