Installation Instruction for PAIRS

Dependency requirements

  • Elasticsearch
  • elasticsearch-py
  • sphinx
  • Kibana

Installing dependencies

Install elasticsearch

First, you need to install OpenJDK

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

To verify your JRE is installed and can be used, run the command:

$ java -version

The result should look like this:

Output of java -version
java version "1.7.0_79"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.6) (7u79-2.5.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode)

Installing Java 8

$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update

Install the latest stable version of Oracle Java 8 with this command (and accept the license agreement that pops up):

$ sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer

verify it is installed:

$ java -version

Downloading and Installing Elasticsearch

$ wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.2.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.7.2.deb

To make sure Elasticsearch starts and stops automatically, add its init script to the default runlevels with the command:

$ sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults

start Elasticsearch

$ sudo service elasticsearch start

For more detailed info on configuration you can follow the tutorial at: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-14-04

Alternate option

Use script to downlaod and install elasticsearch:

run the script at: https://gist.github.com/ricardo-rossi/8265589463915837429d

Install sphinx

$ sudo apt-get install sphinx

Install elasticsearch.py

$ pip install elasticsearch>=2.3.0

Install and start Kibana

Installing kibana with apt-get

  1. Download and install the Public Signing Key:

    $ wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

  2. Add the repository definition to your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kibana.list file:

    $ echo "deb http://packages.elastic.co/kibana/4.5/debian stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

  3. Run apt-get update and the repository is ready for use. Install Kibana with the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kibana

  4. Configure Kibana to automatically start during bootup. If your distribution is using the System V version of init, run the following command:

    $ sudo update-rc.d kibana defaults 95 10

  5. start kibana

    $ sudo service kibana start

That’s it! Kibana is now running on port 5601. You can access the kibana UI by pointing your browser to:

http://localhost:5601