Kibana Command-line Interface Options

Kibana CLI options

$ /opt/kibana/bin/kibana --help

  Usage: bin/kibana [command=serve] [options]
  
  Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.
  
  Commands:
    serve  [options]  Run the kibana server
    help  <command>   Get the help for a specific command
  
  "serve" Options:
  
    -e, --elasticsearch <uri1,uri2>  Elasticsearch instances
    -c, --config <path>              Path to the config file, use multiple --config args to include multiple config files (default: ["/opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml"])
    -p, --port <port>                The port to bind to
    -q, --quiet                      Prevent all logging except errors
    -Q, --silent                     Prevent all logging
    --verbose                        Turns on verbose logging
    -H, --host <host>                The host to bind to
    -l, --log-file <path>            The file to log to
    --plugin-dir <path>              A path to scan for plugins, this can be specified multiple times to specify multiple directories (default: ["/opt/kibana/plugins","/opt/kibana/src/legacy/core_plugins"])
    --plugin-path <path>             A path to a plugin which should be included by the server, this can be specified multiple times to specify multiple paths (default: [])
    --plugins <path>                 an alias for --plugin-dir
    --optimize                       Optimize and then stop the server
    -h, --help                       output usage information