Kibana4 to listen on Port 80 instead of Port 5601

Question

I have elasticsearch 1.4 and kibana4 running on an Amazo EC2 instance running RHEL7.

Kibana4 is running as a standalone process and is not deployed in a web container such as nginx.It is listening on Port 5601.(the default port). I would like to have kibana listen on port 80.

Can this be achieved without using nginx? If yes how?

Answer 1

Edit file {kibana-directory}/config/kibana.yml. Find this line:

port: 5601

and change it to:

port: 80

Answer 2

Full settings here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/settings.html

This should be added to config/kibana.yml server.port: 80

And run kibana server with sudo. Make sure no process is using port 80 at the same time.

Answer 3

Setting the port 80 in config file will trigger the following error kibana[11777]: FATAL Error: listen EACCES: permission denied 0.0.0.0:80 due to the fact that kibana service by default executes under the user kibana

You can change the user to root, but this will trigger the following warning kibana[11639]: Kibana should not be run as root. Use --allow-root to continue.

So running kibana service under root user is something not recommended. Better make a port forwarding rule, or a HTTP redirect if you have a web server.