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[Docs] Append more explanation to Configuring Kibana (#15615)

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@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ on `localhost:5601`. To change the host or port number, or connect to Elasticsea
you'll need to update your `kibana.yml` file. You can also enable SSL and set a variety of other options.
.Kibana Configuration Settings
`console.enabled`:: *Default: true* Set to false to disable Console. Toggling this will cause the server to regenerate assets on the next startup, which may cause a delay before pages start being served.
`console.enabled:`:: *Default: true* Set to false to disable Console. Toggling this will cause the server to regenerate assets on the next startup, which may cause a delay before pages start being served.
`cpu.cgroup.path.override`:: Override for cgroup cpu path when mounted in manner that is inconsistent with `/proc/self/cgroup`
`cpuacct.cgroup.path.override`:: Override for cgroup cpuacct path when mounted in manner that is inconsistent with `/proc/self/cgroup`
`cpu.cgroup.path.override:`:: Override for cgroup cpu path when mounted in manner that is inconsistent with `/proc/self/cgroup`
`cpuacct.cgroup.path.override:`:: Override for cgroup cpuacct path when mounted in manner that is inconsistent with `/proc/self/cgroup`
`elasticsearch.customHeaders:`:: *Default: `{}`* Header names and values to send to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers
cannot be overwritten by client-side headers, regardless of the `elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist` configuration.
@ -22,14 +22,13 @@ to this Kibana instance.
To send *no* client-side headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).
`elasticsearch.requestTimeout:`:: *Default: 30000* Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or
Elasticsearch. This value must be a positive integer.
`elasticsearch.shardTimeout:`:: *Default: 0* Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set
to 0 to disable.
`elasticsearch.shardTimeout:`:: *Default: 0* Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.
`elasticsearch.ssl.certificate:` and `elasticsearch.ssl.key:`:: Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL
certificate and key files. These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.
certificate and key files. These files are used to verify the identity of Kibana to Elasticsearch and are required when `xpack.ssl.verification_mode` in Elasticsearch is set to either `certificate` or `full`.
`elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities:`:: Optional setting that enables you to specify a list of paths to the PEM file for the certificate
authority for your Elasticsearch instance.
`elasticsearch.ssl.keyPassphrase`:: The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.
`elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode:`:: *Default: full* Controls the verification of certificates. Valid values are `none`, `certificate`, and `full`.
`elasticsearch.ssl.keyPassphrase:`:: The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.
`elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode:`:: *Default: full* Controls the verification of certificates presented by Elasticsearch. Valid values are `none`, `certificate`, and `full`.
`full` performs hostname verification, and `certificate` does not.
`elasticsearch.startupTimeout:`:: *Default: 5000* Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before
retrying.
@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ Elasticsearch. This value must be a positive integer.
certificate and key files. These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.
`elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.certificateAuthorities:`:: Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate
authority for your tribe Elasticsearch instance.
`elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.keyPassphrase`:: The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.
`elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.keyPassphrase:`:: The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.
`elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.verificationMode:`:: *Default: full* Controls the verification of certificates. Valid values are `none`, `certificate`, and `full`. `full` performs hostname verification, and `certificate` does not.
`elasticsearch.tribe.url:`:: Optional URL of the Elasticsearch tribe instance to use for all your
queries.
@ -67,20 +66,20 @@ dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn’t already exist.
`logging.quiet:`:: *Default: false* Set the value of this setting to `true` to suppress all logging output other than
error messages.
`logging.silent:`:: *Default: false* Set the value of this setting to `true` to suppress all logging output.
`logging.verbose`:: *Default: false* Set the value of this setting to `true` to log all events, including system usage
`logging.verbose:`:: *Default: false* Set the value of this setting to `true` to log all events, including system usage
information and all requests.
`logging.useUTC`:: *Default: true* Set the value of this setting to `false` to log events using the timezone of the server, rather than UTC.
`path.data`:: *Default: `data`* The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch.
`path.data:`:: *Default: `data`* The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch.
`pid.file:`:: Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.
`ops.interval`:: *Default: 5000* Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance metrics.
`ops.interval:`:: *Default: 5000* Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance metrics.
The minimum value is 100.
[[regionmap-settings]] `regionmap`:: Specifies additional vector layers for use in <<regionmap, Region Map>> visualizations.
[[regionmap-settings]] `regionmap:`:: Specifies additional vector layers for use in <<regionmap, Region Map>> visualizations.
Each layer object points to an external vector file that contains a geojson FeatureCollection.
The file must use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System[WGS84 coordinate reference system] and only include polygons.
The file must use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System[WGS84 coordinate reference system] and only include polygons.
If the file is hosted on a separate domain from Kibana, the server needs to be CORS-enabled so Kibana can download the file.
The following example shows a valid regionmap configuration.
@ -95,15 +94,15 @@ The following example shows a valid regionmap configuration.
description: "Full department name"
- name: "INSEE"
description: "INSEE numeric identifier"
`regionmap.layers[].name:`:: Mandatory. A description of the map being provided.
`regionmap.layers[].url:`:: Mandatory. The location of the geojson file as provided by a webserver.
`regionmap.layers[].attribution:`:: Optional. References the originating source of the geojson file.
`regionmap.layers[].fields[]:`:: Mandatory. Each layer can contain multiple fields to indicate what properties from the geojson features you wish to expose. The example above shows how to define multiple properties.
`regionmap.layers[].fields[].name:`:: Mandatory. This value is used to do an inner-join between the document stored in Elasticsearch and the geojson file. e.g. if the field in the geojson is called `Location` and has city names, there must be a field in Elasticsearch that holds the same values that Kibana can then use to lookup for the geoshape data.
`regionmap.layers[].fields[].description:`:: Mandatory. The human readable text that is shown under the Options tab when building the Region Map visualization.
`regionmap.includeElasticMapsService`:: turns on or off whether layers from the Elastic Maps Service should be included in the vector layer option list.
By turning this off, only the layers that are configured here will be included. The default is true.
`regionmap.includeElasticMapsService:`:: turns on or off whether layers from the Elastic Maps Service should be included in the vector layer option list.
By turning this off, only the layers that are configured here will be included. The default is true.
`server.basePath:`:: Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. This only affects
the URLs generated by Kibana, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests
@ -114,15 +113,15 @@ By turning this off, only the layers that are configured here will be included.
`server.maxPayloadBytes:`:: *Default: 1048576* The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.
`server.name:`:: *Default: "your-hostname"* A human-readable display name that identifies this Kibana instance.
`server.port:`:: *Default: 5601* Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
`server.ssl.enabled`:: *Default: "false"* Enables SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser. When set to `true`, `server.ssl.certificate` and `server.ssl.key` are required
`server.ssl.enabled:`:: *Default: "false"* Enables SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser. When set to `true`, `server.ssl.certificate` and `server.ssl.key` are required
`server.ssl.certificate:` and `server.ssl.key:`:: Paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.
`server.ssl.certificateAuthorities`:: List of paths to PEM encoded certificate files that should be trusted.
`server.ssl.cipherSuites`:: *Default: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, HIGH,!aNULL, !eNULL, !EXPORT, !DES, !RC4, !MD5, !PSK, !SRP, !CAMELLIA*. Details on the format, and the valid options, are available via the [OpenSSL cipher list format documentation](https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/apps/ciphers.html#CIPHER-LIST-FORMAT)
`server.ssl.keyPassphrase`:: The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.
`server.ssl.redirectHttpFromPort` :: Kibana will bind to this port and redirect all http requests to https over the port configured as `server.port`.
`server.ssl.supportedProtocols`:: *Default: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2* Supported protocols with versions. Valid protocols: `TLSv1`, `TLSv1.1`, `TLSv1.2`
`server.ssl.certificateAuthorities:`:: List of paths to PEM encoded certificate files that should be trusted.
`server.ssl.cipherSuites:`:: *Default: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, HIGH,!aNULL, !eNULL, !EXPORT, !DES, !RC4, !MD5, !PSK, !SRP, !CAMELLIA*. Details on the format, and the valid options, are available via the [OpenSSL cipher list format documentation](https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/apps/ciphers.html#CIPHER-LIST-FORMAT)
`server.ssl.keyPassphrase:`:: The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.
`server.ssl.redirectHttpFromPort:`:: Kibana will bind to this port and redirect all http requests to https over the port configured as `server.port`.
`server.ssl.supportedProtocols:`:: *Default: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2* Supported protocols with versions. Valid protocols: `TLSv1`, `TLSv1.1`, `TLSv1.2`
`status.allowAnonymous`:: *Default: false* If authentication is enabled, setting this to `true` allows
`status.allowAnonymous:`:: *Default: false* If authentication is enabled, setting this to `true` allows
unauthenticated users to access the Kibana server status API and status page.
[[tilemap-settings]] `tilemap.options.attribution:`:: *Default: `"© [Elastic Maps Service](https://www.elastic.co/elastic-maps-service)"`* The map attribution string.