kibana-plugins-installer

A short script for automatically install plugins for kibana 5

Quick start

This script allows to automatically install plugins for kibana. The architecture of kibana 5 is as follows:

/kibana-5.0.0-YOUR-OS/
|-- bin
|-- config
|-- data
|-- node
|-- node_modules
|-- optimize
|-- plugins
|-- src
|-- webpackShims
|-- ...

For the script to work, you need to add two directories: logs and plugins_backup

/kibana-5.0.0-YOUR-OS/
|-- bin
|-- config
|-- data
|-- logs
|-- node
|-- node_modules
|-- optimize
|-- plugins
|-- plugins_backup
|-- src
|-- webpackShims
|-- ...

then run the command:

$ node kibana-plugins-installer.js

NOTE: Ideally, you must create a recurring task (crontab) to run this script every 1 minute for example.

How to use

It is enough simply to deposit the archive which contains the plugin with as extension: .tmp.zip in the folder plugins
The script go copy the archive with the current date in the folder plugins_backup. Then, this one, will rename the archive in .zip, remove the plugin (if existing) and install it.
You can find the log of plugin in the folder logs

NOTE: Don't forget to change the path in the script and adapt the installation and removal commands (cmdRemove, cmdInstall) according to your environment !