Kibana Windows zip distribution takes too long to unzip

Question

I have downloaded latest kibana OSS zip file from here. However I noticed its taking too long to extract the zip on Windows default zip extract utility.

Is it meant to be this much time consuming Or do I need to change anything on my machine to improve it ?

Answer 1

The default unzipping functionality in Windows cannot, for whatever reason, unzip Kibana. It times out when I try it and I've seen others have the same problem. I've never had this issue with anything besides Kibana, so I'm pretty confident the problem is with Kibana.

The way I unzipped it in the end was by downloading 7zip. Then I right clicked on the Kibana .zip folder and unzipped it with 7zip. Took like 5 minutes which is ridiculous but it still worked.

Get 7zip here

Answer 2

This is basically a known issue on Windows, but I'm not sure what can be done against it (other than convince Microsoft to add a better implementation).

An alternative ZIP client should help with the problem though if I remember correctly.