Add the official Node.js PPA:

sudo curl --silent --location  https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -

As shown in the preceding screenshot, the command will add the official Node.js repository to the system and update the apt package database to include all the latest files under the packages. At the end of the execution of this command, we will be prompted to install Node.js and npm, as shown in the following screenshot:

Install Node.js by entering this command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs

To check whether Node.js has been installed successfully, type the following command in the terminal:

node –v

Upon successful installation, it will display the version of Node.js.

Now, to check whether npm has been installed successfully, type the following command in the terminal:

npm –v

Upon successful installation, it will show the version of npm.

Download the Windows Installer (.msi) file by going to https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

Double-click on the downloaded file and keep clicking on Next to install the software.

To validate the successful installation of Node.js, right-click and select GIT Bash.

In GIT Bash, enter this:

node –v

Upon successful installation, you will be shown the version of Node.js.

To validate the successful installation of npm, right-click and select GIT Bash.

In GIT Bash, enter the following line:

npm –v

Upon successful installation, it will show the version of npm.

Install elasticdump by typing the following command in the terminal:

sudo npm install elasticdump -g

Then run elasticdump by typing this command in the terminal:

elasticdump

Import a sample data (JSON) file into Elasticsearch, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/guptayuvraj/Kibana_Essentials and is named tweet.json. It will be imported into Elasticsearch using the following command in the terminal:

elasticdump \
--bulk=true \
--input="/home/yuvraj/Desktop/tweet.json" \
--output=http://localhost:9200/

Here, input provides the location of the file, as shown in the following screenshot:

As you can see, data is being imported to Elasticsearch from the tweet.json file, and the dump complete message is displayed when all the records are imported to Elasticsearch successfully.

Install elasticdump by typing the following command in GIT Bash:

npm install elasticdump -g

Then run elasticdump by typing this command in GIT Bash:

elasticdump

Import the sample data (JSON) file into Elasticsearch, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/guptayuvraj/Kibana_Essentials and is named tweet.json. It will be imported to Elasticsearch using the following command in GIT Bash:

elasticdump \
--bulk=true \
--input="C:\Users\ygupta\Desktop\tweet.json" \
--output=http://localhost:9200/

Here, input provides the location of the file.

The preceding screenshot shows data being imported to Elasticsearch from the tweet.json file, and the dump complete message is displayed when all the records are imported to Elasticsearch successfully.

To verify that the data has been imported to Elasticsearch, open http://localhost:5601 in your browser, and this is what you should see: