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Can Kibana 3 and Kibana 4 Be Used Side-By-Side?

I'm currently using Kibana 3, and would like to upgrade to Kibana 4. However, I would like to keep Kibana 3 around until I have my dashboards in Kibana 4 configured. Can the two be run side-by-side without interfering with one another?

I know that Kibana stores its settings in the attached Elasticsearch database, so I am worried that Kibana 4 might overwrite settings in my Kibana 3 instance.

Solution

  • You can choose the name of the index to use in the Kibana settings file (Kibana 4; Don't sure if 3 includes this option).

    kibana.yml

    
    # Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches,    visualizations
    # and dashboards. It will create a new index if it doesn't already exist.
    kibana_index: ".kibana"

    Change it to something like .kibana4

    
    kibana_index: ".kibana4"