Viewing logs using Kibana

For this book, we will explore how to use Kibana, taking advantage of it as an add-on to Minikube. After you have enabled it, and when the pods are fully available and reporting as Ready, you can access Kibana with this command:

minikube service kibana-logging -n kube-system

This will bring up a web page that is backed by the kibana-logging service. When it is first accessed, the web page will ask you to specify a default index, which is used by Elasticsearch to build its search indices:

Click on Create, taking the defaults that are provided. The default index pattern of logstash-* doesn't mean it has to come from ...

Get Kubernetes for Developers now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.