Start elasticsearch and kibana on macOS

start_elasticsearch.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# Start elasticsearch in a new Terminal window.
#

echo "Starting elasticsearch in a new Terminal.app window..."

# See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/989357/731
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "~/Downloads/elasticsearch-7.10.2/bin/elasticsearch"'

echo "Done."


#
# elasticsearch takes a bit to initialize and be ready to accept connections. Sleep for a bit before
# starting kibana to avoid reams of exceptions when it can't yet connect to elasticsearch.
#

waitTime="10"
echo "Waiting $waitTime seconds for elasticsearch to initialize..."
sleep $waitTime


#
# Start kibana in a new Terminal window.
#

echo "Starting kibana in a new Terminal.app window..."
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "~/Downloads/kibana-7.10.2-darwin-x86_64/bin/kibana"'
echo "Done."