Sense/Kibana installation and links

[nerfologist]

Hello,
as others have reported, the documentation does not seem up to date regarding the Sense console. this link explains how to install the Sense plugin which appears to be no longer necessary.

Under Mac Os X, you can just install Elasticsearch and kibana:

brew install elasticsearch
brew services start elasticsearch
brew install kibana
brew services start kibana

After that, Elasticsearch will be running on localhost:9200 and the Kibana dashboard on localhost:5601.

In order to make the Sense links work, you can just click the cog reading Configure Sense URL in the bottom right of an example and substitute the default URL with

http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dev_tools/console

The queries should be correctly pasted into the left console window, ready for execution.