Add the Oracle Java Personal Package Archive (PPA) to the apt repository list:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java

As shown in the preceding screenshot, you will initially be prompted for the password for running the sudo command (only when you have not logged in as root), and on successful addition to the repository, you will receive an OK message, which means that the repository has been imported.

Update the apt package database to include all the latest files under the packages:

sudo apt-get update

Install the latest version of Oracle Java 8:

sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer

Also, during the installation, you will be prompted to accept the license agreement, which pops up as follows:

To check whether Java has been successfully installed, type the following command in the terminal:

java –version

This signifies that Java has been installed successfully.

Download the latest version of the Java JDK from the Sun Microsystems site at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, click on the DOWNLOAD button of JDK to download. You will be redirected to the download page. There, you have to first click on the Accept License Agreement radio button, followed by the Windows version to download the .exe file, as shown here:

Double-click on the file to be installed and it will open as an installer.

Click on Next, accept the license by reading it, and keep clicking on Next until it shows that JDK has been installed successfully.

Now, to run Java on Windows, you need to set the path of JAVA in the environment variable settings of Windows. Firstly, open the properties of My Computer. Select the Advanced system settings and then click on the Advanced tab, wherein you have to click on the environment variables option, as shown in this screenshot:

After opening Environment Variables, click on New (under the System variables) and give the variable name as JAVA_HOME and variable value as C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45 (do check in your system where jdk has been installed and provide the path corresponding to the version installed as mentioned in system directory), as shown in the following screenshot:

Then, double-click on the Path variable (under the System variables) and move towards the end of textbox. Insert a semicolon if it is not already inserted, and add the location of the bin folder of JDK, like this: %JAVA_HOME%\bin. Next, click on OK in all the windows opened.

To check whether Java is installed or not, type the following command in Command Prompt:

java –version

This signifies that Java has been installed successfully.

Download Elasticsearch v 1.5.2 as a .tar file using the following command on the terminal:

curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.5.2.tar.gz

sudo apt-get -y install curl

Extract the downloaded .tar file using this command:

tar -xvzf elasticsearch-1.5.2.tar.gz

This will extract the files and folder into the current working directory.

Navigate to the bin directory within the elasticsearch-1.5.2 directory:

cd elasticsearch-1.5.2/bin

Now run Elasticsearch to start the node and cluster, using the following command:

./elasticsearch

The preceding screenshot shows that the Elasticsearch node has been started, and it has been given a random Marvel Comics character name.

To verify the Elasticsearch installation, open http://localhost:9200 in your browser.

Download Kibana version 4.1.1 as a .tar file using the following command in the terminal:

curl -L -O https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded .tar file using this command:

tar -xvzf kibana-4.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz

The preceding command will extract the files and folder into the current working directory.

Navigate to the bin directory within the kibana-4.1.1-linux-x64 directory:

cd kibana-4.1.1-linux-x64/bin

Now run Kibana to start the node and cluster using the following command:

./kibana

Note

Make sure that Elasticsearch is running. If it is not running and you try to start Kibana, the following error will be displayed after you run the preceding command:

To verify the Kibana installation, open http://localhost:5601 in your browser.

Open GIT Bash and enter the following command in the terminal:

curl -L -O https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.1.1-windows.zip

Extract the downloaded ZIP package by either unzipping it using WinRar or 7Zip (download it if you don't have it), or using the following command in GIT Bash:

unzip kibana-4.1.1-windows.zip

This will extract the files and folder into the directory.

Then click on the extracted folder and navigate through it to get to the bin folder.

Click on the kibana.bat file to run Kibana.

Note

Make sure that Elasticsearch is running. If it is not running and you try to start Kibana, the following error will be displayed after you click on the kibana.bat file:

Again, to verify the Kibana installation, open http://localhost:5601 in your browser.

Run the following command in the terminal to open the configuration file:

sudo vi ~/elasticsearch-1.5.2/config/elasticsearch.yml

Windows users can open the elasticsearch.yml file from the config folder. This will open the configuration file as follows:

The cluster name can be changed, as follows:

#cluster.name: elasticsearch to cluster.name: "your_cluster_name".

In the preceding figure, the cluster name has been changed to test. Then, we save the file.

To verify that the cluster name has been changed, run Elasticsearch as mentioned in the earlier section.

Then open http://localhost:9200 in the browser to verify, as shown here:

Run the following command in the terminal to open the configuration file:

sudo vi ~/kibana-4.1.1-linux-x64/config/kibana.yml

Windows users can open the kibana.yml file from the config folder.

In this file, you can change various parameters such as the port on which Kibana works, the host address on which Kibana works, the URL of Elasticsearch that you wish to connect to, and so on.

For example, the port on which Kibana works can be changed by changing the port address. As shown in the following screenshot, port: 5601 can be changed to any other port, such as port: 5604. Then we save the file.

To check whether Kibana is running on port 5604, run Kibana as mentioned earlier. Then open http://localhost:5604 in the browser to verify, as follows:

In the preceding screenshot, notice that Kibana is working on port 5604, as per our change.