Elasticsearch-Kibana

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library.

Deploy Elasticsearch-Kibana

Elasticsearch

elasticsearch:9.0.2

Just deployed

/esdata

Kibana

kibana:9.0.2

Just deployed

Elastic Stack: Search, Analyze, and Visualize in Real-Time.

Search, Analyze, and Visualize Data in Real Time

Website | Elasticsearch Docs | Kibana Docs

Elasticsearch-Kibana is an open-source stack for searching, analyzing, and visualizing data in real time. Elasticsearch offers a distributed search and analytics engine, while Kibana provides a modern UI for dashboards, visualizations, and alerting.


Deploy and Host

About Hosting Elasticsearch-Kibana

Elasticsearch and Kibana are typically deployed together to form the heart of the Elastic Stack (formerly known as ELK).

  • Elasticsearch indexes and stores structured or unstructured data and provides a robust search engine.
  • Kibana connects to Elasticsearch to visualize data through interactive dashboards, charts, and maps.

Hosting them on Railway means you don’t need to manage infrastructure. You can spin up both services using Docker images, with persistent volumes for Elasticsearch and resource-optimized containers for Kibana. This setup is ideal for observability pipelines, centralized logging, application analytics, and search features in your app stack.


Common Use Cases

  • Centralized Logging
    Aggregate logs from applications, microservices, or cloud platforms into a searchable and visual dashboard.

  • Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting
    Use Kibana to visualize system health, KPIs, or APM metrics in real time.

  • Full-Text Search for Applications
    Power rich search functionality for product catalogs, documentation, support tickets, and more.


🌟 Key Features

πŸ” Full-Text Search

Built on Apache Lucene, Elasticsearch delivers powerful and flexible search capabilities with filters, relevance scoring, and fuzzy queries.

πŸ“Š Interactive Dashboards

Use Kibana to explore data visually through time series graphs, pie charts, maps, and custom dashboards.

βš™οΈ Horizontal Scalability

Elasticsearch supports clustering and sharding for scaling across multiple nodes.

🧰 API Clients and SDKs

Official clients for Node.js, Python, Go, Java, and more β€” ideal for seamless integration.

πŸ” Access Control (Optional)

Role-based access, encryption, and SSO are supported through Elastic commercial features or open alternatives.


Dependencies for Elasticsearch-Kibana Hosting

  • Persistent volume for Elasticsearch (/usr/share/elasticsearch/data)
  • Minimum 2GB RAM for Elasticsearch, 1GB RAM for Kibana
  • Railway environment with Docker support

Deployment Dependencies


Why Deploy Elasticsearch-Kibana on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Elasticsearch-Kibana on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.


Template Content

Elasticsearch

elasticsearch:9.0.2

More templates in this category

View Template
OpenTelemetry Collector and Backend
OpenTelemetry Collector with Backend Stack

View Template
pgweb | Postgres UI
View and query your Postgres instance with a sleek and minimalistic UI.

View Template
Doku
Doku is an open-source LLMOps tool to monitor & evaluate LLM applications