$ cat .buildpacks
https://github.com/issueapp/heroku-buildpack-kibana

# for new project
$ heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/issueapp/heroku-buildpack-kibana

# for existing project
$ heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/issueapp/heroku-buildpack-kibana

$ heroku config:set ELASTICSEARCH_URL="https://user:[email protected]:9200"
$ heroku config:set DOWNLOAD_URL="https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz"

$ cat Procfile
web: kibana --port $PORT

$ git push heroku master

# verify and profit!
$ heroku open