Deploying Kibana

Kibana is an open source data visualization dashboard that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data.

Let's perform the following steps to get Kibana deployed:

1. Create a Kibana instance associated with the Elasticsearch cluster we created previously:

$ cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Kibana
metadata:
  name: mykibana
  namespace: logging
spec:
  version: 7.4.2
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: elasticsearch
EOF

2. Get the status of the Kibana node:

$ kubectl get elasticsearch -n logging
NAME     HEALTH NODES VERSION AGE
mykibana green  1     7.4.2   2m27s

3. You can also confirm the pod's status in the logging namespace using the following command:

$ kubectl get pods -n logging
NAME                         READY STATUS  RESTARTS AGE
elasticsearch-es-default-0   1/1   Running 0        37m
elasticsearch-es-default-1   1/1   Running 0        37m
elasticsearch-es-default-2   1/1   Running 0        37m
mykibana-kb-7864bfdb45-26lpq 1/1   Running 0        3m36s

With that, you have both Elasticsearch and Kibana nodes deployed. Next, we will deploy fluent-bit to forward container logs to our Elasticsearch deployment.