Is that possible to support kibana 5.1.* also?

[ommsolutions]

Is that possible to support kibana 5.1.* also?

[gregwjacobs]

+1

Tried installing manually and updating the package.json to 5.1.1 and Kibana would no longer start. Could not find any errors in the kibana stdout or stderr logs with a standard 5.1.1 installation. If I can provide any further logs or details / debug let me know.

Assuming internal changes are required to work with 5.1.1 beyond just adjusting the package.json values.

[stefandoorn]

@gregwjacobs I'm experiencing the same. Did you find any solution in the meanwhile?

[stefandoorn]

Btw, what I noticed when unpacking I'm getting the following structure:

/usr/share/kibana/plugins/kibana/extended_metric_vis

I just removed the kibana folder in between, so it becomes:

/usr/share/kibana/plugins/extended_metric_vis

Restarted Kibana and now it seems to work. My log files were not writeable, that was preventing me from starting it again apparently.

[gregwjacobs]

When I unpacked, I did the same, placing the contents inside the zip of extended_metric_vis into

/usr/share/kibana/plugins/extended_metric_vis

Then using npm install to install it (which didn't produce errors)

[stefandoorn]

Ok. I didn't do npm install. Just killed Kibana couple of times and out of a sudden it started to work.. I'm on 5.1.1. (I adjusted that in package.json).

[gregwjacobs]

I tried just dropping the contents into /usr/share/kibana/plugins/extended_metric_vis and a restart (several times) ... same result after also setting version to 5.1.1. to make my install version. I'd assume npm install reads any dependencies defined in package.json and installs them, otherwise does nothing else when its local hard copy inside the plugins folder. There are no external requirements defined in this plugins packages.json anyways.

Assuming further debug required with some extended logging turned on in Kibana perhaps to debug?

[gregwjacobs]

I see the issue. So basically by default run kibana directly to consume its default STDOUT logging to debug, or configure it in its settings .yml - default will not have logs saved anywhere when started by init.d/service/systemd whatever.

Adding the plugin seems to trigger the system to re-generate assets, so adding the new plugin may require some patience while it spins up. As you suggested I just had to copy it in place, modify the packages.json, restart it and 'wait' for it to finish. Took about 1-2 minutes. If it had other dependaces ,using npm install in the same folder would be required when doing a 'manual' install. I assume the kibana installer helper does this otherwise when It can pull down the asset via HTTP(s).

Example logs

yourname@yourhost:/usr/share/kibana/bin$ sudo ./kibana
  log   [14:46:29.046] [info][optimize] Optimizing and caching bundles for monitoring, kibana, timelion and status_page. This may take a few minutes

It had to wait and let it work a few minutes hard and then it worked fine.

Basically it appears a new 'release' zip just has to be made on this github site, as version 5.1.1 and kibana users should be able to install directly without issues. Confirmed it works on my end.

[gregwjacobs]

Issued a pull request via #6 with confirmed fix / adjustment to work with 5.1.1

[patil-akshay]

as we know this plug_in works for 5.0.0 only to work on 5.1.1 follow below steps

Just extract the file modify the package.json
{
"name": "extended_metric_vis",
"version": "0.1.0",
"main": "index.js",
"kibana": {
"version": "5.1.1"
},
"author": "Olaf Horstmann [email protected]",
"website": "http://www.omm-solutions.de"
}

like tihs an enjoy

[githubAmin2]

my kibana is 5.4.0, but when i manual unzip plugin package under /usr/share/kibana/plugins and modify the package.json
{
"name": "extended_metric_vis",
"version": "0.1.0",
"main": "index.js",
"kibana": {
"version": "5.4.0"
},
"author": "Olaf Horstmann [email protected]",
"website": "http://www.omm-solutions.de"
}

The icon from visualize is not shown after many times restart kibana 5.4

[TechWatching]

Same for me, I also have the log when I start Kibana :
[09:44:55.743] [warning][plugins] Skipping non-plugin directory at D:\Kibana\kibana-5.4.0-windows-x86\plugins\extended_metric_vis