Connect kibana to elastic search in a docker container

Get image from docker hub

Your version of kibana must be the same as your elastic search version.

docker pull docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.8.2

Set environment variables of container

Kibana doesn't accept 'elastic' as username since version 7.9.0, so you must create a service account token in elastic search and use it in kibana.

ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS: ["YOUR_ELASTICSEARCH_URL"]
ELASTICSEARCH_SERVICEACCOUNTTOKEN: "<YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>"

(I don't found environment variable 'ELASTICSEARCH_SERVICEACCOUNTTOKEN' in documentation, but it works)

When the container is started, it will create a kibana.yml file in /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml.

Connection

Username and Password are same as elastic search.

References

• Kibana in a docker container
• Create service account token