Configuring Kibana to work with Elastic Search
- Launch the Virtual Machine where the Elastic Search is Installed
- For installing kibana Refer Here. For ubuntu specific installation Refer Here
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kibana -y
- Configurations for kibana will be present in
/etc/kibana/kibana.yml
- Refer Here to configuration of kibana
- configure kibana.yml to point to elastic search. Kibana default configuration is configured to communicate with elasticsearch on localhost, which we can change to any ip address
- Now open
http://<publicip>:5601
Http Requests and Responses
- Http Request:
- Here we need to specify the url
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Methods:
- GET: To get the information => Retrieve
- DELETE: To delete the information => Delete
- POST: To Create the information => Create
- PUT: To update the existing information => Update
- Http Response:
- We Get Status Codes and message body for some HTTP Methods (Verbs)
- 1xx => informational
- 2xx => success
- 3xx => redirection
- 4xx => client side errors
- 5xx => server side errors
- Elastic search also sends the json responses
- Refer Here for json tutorial.
- Exercise:
- Create a curl command to get the response from
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 - using verbose find the content type, request method and response status code
