Downloading the software

Download and unzip the required Windows installer packages for Elasticsearch and Kibana on the server selected as your dedicated Elasticsearch server.

Note: Windows PowerShell commands are used to set up the Elastic Stack environment. You don't need to be an expert in Windows PowerShell to complete the setup steps documented here, however you'll need to customize some commands to your environment.
  1. Log in to the server where the Elasticsearch and Kibana software will be running, using an account with machine Administrator privileges.
  2. Download the Elasticsearch and Kibana package distributions for Windows and place them at the root of the C: drive, to ensure that the file extraction will not fail due to long file paths. For example:
    C:\Elasticsearch
  3. Unzip them with your favorite unzip tool. This will create the following folders:
    • elasticsearch-<version_number> - the Elasticsearch installation folder
    • kibana-<version_number> - the Kibana installation folder.