Monday, September 10, 2018

Kibana: Create index patterns and set default index pattern through curl

I needed programatically create kibana index patterns and set the default index pattern to support an automated deployment.  The below two curl commands were used in a bash script to do that.  To get the $KIBANA_HIDDEN_INDEX, navigate to <kibana_home>/config/kibana.yml, and note down the "kibana.index" value.

Environment, this worked on both:
centos-release-6-8.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64
kibana-5.0.2-linux-x86_64

Windows 10 with Git Bash (Cygwin)
kibana-5.0.2-windows-x86
  1. Create kibana index pattern:

  2. curl -X POST -H "kbn-xsrf:true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"timeFieldName":"@timestamp","title": "$INDEX_PATTERN"}' http://localhost:5601/elasticsearch/$KIBANA_HIDDEN_INDEX/index-pattern/$INDEX_PATTERN?op_type=create

    curl -X POST -H "kbn-xsrf:true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"timeFieldName":"@timestamp","title": "cherryshoe_idx"}' http://localhost:5601/elasticsearch/.local/index-pattern/cherryshoe_idx?op_type=create

  3. Set default index pattern:
  4. curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -d '{"value":"$INDEX_PATTERN"}' http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/settings/defaultIndex

    curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -d '{"value":"cherryshoe_idx"}' http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/settings/defaultIndex

Updated instructions for Kibana 6.4.2:
Windows 10 with Git Bash (Cygwin)
kibana-6.4.2-windows-x86_64

  1. Create kibana index pattern:

  2. jsonValue="{\"attributes\":{\"title\":\"$INDEX_PATTERN\",\"timeFieldName\":\"@timestamp\"}}"
    curl -X POST -H "kbn-xsrf:true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d $jsonValue http://localhost:5601/api/saved_objects/index-pattern/$INDEX_PATTERN

    jsonValue="{\"attributes\":{\"title\":\"cherryshoe_idx\",\"timeFieldName\":\"@timestamp\"}}"
    curl -X POST -H "kbn-xsrf:true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d $jsonValue http://localhost:5601/api/saved_objects/index-pattern/cherryshoe_idx

  3. Set default index pattern:
  4. defaultIndexValue="{\"changes\":{\"defaultIndex\":\"$INDEX_PATTERN\"}}"
    curl -X POST -H "kbn-xsrf:true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d $defaultIndexValue http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/settings

    defaultIndexValue="{\"changes\":{\"defaultIndex\":\"cherryshoe_idx\"}}"
    curl -X POST -H "kbn-xsrf:true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d $defaultIndexValue http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/settings
This article helped a lot.

1 comment:

  1. If Kibana version is 7+ i.e. v7.0.1

    Here's the answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60404691/1499296

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