HELK Installation Guide

This runbook documents the steps to install HELK (Hunting ELK) on the Ubuntu VM.


Prerequisites

  • Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS VM
  • Internet access for package & Docker pulls

1. Prepare the VM

Update system and install dependencies:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y git curl wget apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg lsb-release

2. Install Docker & Docker Compose

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y docker.io docker-compose-plugin
sudo usermod -aG docker "$USER"
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## 3. Clone HELK Repository 

git clone https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK.git cd HELK/docker

## 4. Run Installer 

sudo ./helk_install.sh

## 5. Verify Installation 

docker ps Expected:

  • helk-elasticsearch

  • helk-logstash

  • helk-kibana

  • helk-zookeeper

  • helk-kafka

  • helk-jupyter

## 6. Access Kibana & Jupyter 

6. Access Kibana & Jupyter