4.1. Installation

ElasticSearch and Kibana installation

To use Kibana for the visualization, you will need both ElasticSearch and Kibana to be installed and run in the background. Follow these steps:

Prerequisite: Python 3.6 or above.

Note that the commands below are given for Linux but can be adapted for other OS

• Download ElasticSearch for your operating system
• Open a new terminal window (or use screen to keep the process running in the background (Linux))
• Unzip and move to your main ELASTICSEARCH_HOME folder

cd ELASTICSEARCH_HOME

• From your ELASTICSEARCH_HOME, run:

$ bin/elasticsearch

and let it run in the background

• Download Kibana 7.3.2 (same version as ElasticSearch)

• Open a new terminal window (or use screen to keep the process running in the background (Linux))

• Unzip and move to your main KIBANA_HOME folder

  cd KIBANA_HOME

• From your KIBANA_HOME, run:

  $ bin/kibana and let it run in the background

• Install the following Kibana plugin: kbn_network following the README instructions, using Version for Kibana 7.0 to 7.4

That's it, you are good to move on to the next step, connecting Saffron to Kibana