Unzip the tar.gz package and navigate to the newly created folder, shown as follows:
$> tar -xzf kibana-oss-7.0.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$> cd kibana-7.0.1-linux-x86_64/
To start Kibana, navigate to the bin folder, type ./kibana (in the case of Linux) or kibana.bat (in the case of Windows), and press Enter.
You should get the following logs:
log [09:00:51.216] [info][status][plugin:kibana@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.279] [info][status][plugin:elasticsearch@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch
log [09:00:51.293] [info][status][plugin:interpreter@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.300] [info][status][plugin:metrics@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.310] [info][status][plugin:apm_oss@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.320] [info][status][plugin:console@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.779] [info][status][plugin:timelion@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.785] [info][status][plugin:tile_map@undefined] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [09:00:51.987] [info][status][plugin:elasticsearch@undefined] Status changed from yellow to green - Ready
log [09:00:52.036] [info][migrations] Creating index .kibana_1.
log [09:00:52.995] [info][migrations] Pointing alias .kibana to .kibana_1.
log [09:00:53.099] [info][migrations] Finished in 1075ms.
log [09:00:53.102] [info][listening] Server running at http://localhost:5601
Kibana is a web application and, unlike Elasticsearch and Logstash, which run on the JVM, Kibana is powered by Node.js. During bootup, Kibana tries to connect to Elasticsearch running on http://localhost:9200. Kibana is started on the default port 5601. Kibana can be accessed from a web browser using the http://localhost:5601 URL. You can navigate to the http://localhost:5601/status URL to find the Kibana server status.
The status page displays information about the server's resource usage and lists the installed plugins, as shown in the following screenshot:
Running different major version releases of Kibana and Elasticsearch (for example, Kibana 7.x and Elasticsearch52.x) is not supported, nor is running minor versions of Kibana that are newer than the version of Elasticsearch (for example, Kibana 7.1 and Elasticsearch 7.0).