How to create Kibana index in Elasticsearch

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I have Elstaticsearch and Logstash installed, and am going to install Kibana according to the instruction in: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/setup.html

After the trivial download and extract, Elasticsearch is started, then the next step: Create the .kibana index with dynamic mapping enabled just for that index:

PUT .kibana
{
    "index.mapper.dynamic": true
}

lead me astray. I have no idea at all what it means and what I should do according to this instruction. Faithfully hope someone can give me some hint about it.

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2 Answers

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Logically .kibana index needs dynamic mapping for all its fields.

Here we have two use-cases:

  1. index.mapper.dynamic is set to true which is default behaviour in Elasticsearch: You can skip manually creating .kibana index step.
  2. index.mapper.dynamic is set to false in Elasticsearch: You have to manually create .kibana index with dynamic mapping enabled.

Hope this Helps!

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This step is only required only if you disabled dynamic mapping of fields in the Elasticsearch. If you haven't done this, then you can simply start Kibana, and it will automatically create all necessary indices, etc.