How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) 8.x on Ubuntu 22.04

At the time this tutorial is written, the latest version of ELK is 8.13. You need to install the same version for all the components.

Requirements:

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 with 4GB RAM and 2 CPUs
• Non-root sudo user. Do not run from user root!

Import Elasticsearch PGP Key

wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/elasticsearch-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/elasticsearch-keyring.gpg] https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-8.x.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch.service

sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service
sudo systemctl stop elasticsearch.service

curl --cacert /etc/elasticsearch/certs/http_ca.crt -u elastic:$ELASTIC_PASSWORD https://localhost:9200