__NOTE__: You have reached the Kibana 3 repository. Kibana 3 is completely new version of Kibana written entirely in HTML and Javascript. You can find the Kibana 2 repository at [https://github.com/rashidkpc/Kibana](https://github.com/rashidkpc/Kibana)
This is very much a preview, many things will change. While it is functional and
useful, please view it as a proof-of-concept. A play ground for ideas :-)
Configuration is in config.js, the default dashboard is in dashboards/default The
format of both of these is likely to change. Documentation for panel types
coming soon.
## Overview
The loading dashboards from disk requires an html5 compliant browser. This has
been tested on the latest versions of firefox and chrome.
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search interface to Logstash and other timestamped data sets stored in ElasticSearch. With those in place Kibana is a snap to setup and start using (seriously). Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful
This is all html and javascript, use it with any webserver, or there is a simple
nodejs webserver in the scripts/ directory, it will listen on port 8000. You'll
likely need to run Kibana Dashboard on an elasticsearch node, and not access it
via a proxy.
### Requirements
* A modern web browser. The latest version of Chrome, Safari and Firefox have all been tested to work. IE8 is not currently supported
* A webserver. No extensions are required, as long as it can serve plain html it will work
* A browser reachable Elasticsearch server. Port 9200 must be open, or a proxy configured to allow access to it.
Cheers
Rashid
### Installation
1. Copy the entire Kibana directory to your webserver
2. Edit config.js to point to your elasticsearch server. This should __not be http://localhost:9200__, but rather the fully qualified domain name of your elasticsearch server. The url entered here _must be reachable_ by your browser.
3. Point your browser at your installation. If you're using Logstash with the default indexing configuration the default Kibana dashboard should work nicely.
### Support
Introduction videos can be found at [http://three.kibana.org](http://three.kibana.org/about.html)
If you have questions or comments the best place to reach me is #logstash or #elasticsearch on irc.freenode.net
