Blank page with sidebar after upgrading from 2.4 to 5.3

[quimnuss]

Hello everyone,

Today I decided to upgrade ELK following the instructions on https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/upgrade.html and friends (elasticsearch, filebeat, logstash)

After all was completed, I only got a blank page with the kibana sidebar.

I've seen it's a common problem and I've tried all solutions I could find. I've installed the packages using the repository. I've deleted the index with curl -XDELETE http://localhost:9200/.kibana

The status page works and all is green, however:

root@helisrv:/home/heli# curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_cat/health?pretty'
1491843733 19:02:13 elasticsearch yellow 1 1 1626 1626 0 0 1626 0 - 50.0%

I've stopped and restarted all services, I've tried adding /app/kibana on the basePath since I have kibana at serverip/app/kibana and it is proxied by apache. Ah right, I use Apache2 not nginx.

I don't know what else to try other than purging all configuration and starting over. I already deleted the index, altought I have a backup of the configuration files.

Also, the timelion link returns a 'url not found' page error.

The only errors reported by firebug worht mentioning are:
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - http://192.168.30.240/api/console/api_server?sense_version=%40%40SENSE_VERSION&apis=es_5_0"
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - http://192.168.30.240/es_admin/.kibana/index-pattern/_search?stored_fields="

and there are also several fonts and svg marked as not found.

Something else I could try? The next thing is purging and reinstalling from scratch and see what happens.

[Marius_Dragomir]

What is your current setup? If you have more nodes in your cluster, you could have another .kibana index around in another node.
You can also try a clear cache in the browser and restarting your ES and Kibana cluster.

[quimnuss]

At the moment I'm just trying to get the localhost to work,
filebeat+logstash+elasticsearch+kibana on the syslog. So I guess there
should not be any other index. I've tried restarting ES and Kibana already,
even the full server. I've also tried using another browser and also a
browser on localhost, same issue.

The structure is very simple at the moment, later I'll add another server.

[kirtski (Kirt Pulaski)]

I had the 'Kibana blank page' problem and I read lots of posts and I finally found my problem so I'll post it in case it helps other people. I recently went from two nodes to one so I thought that had something to do with it, but it didn't. What I did was this: I had been learning about users and roles and I created a new user (subsequently to be used for doing demos from the prototype I built - I'm an extreme novice). Somehow this user I created became the default user for Kibana login. The privileges of the user were too low to see anything, so all pages blank!! I logged out and logged back in with full rights and boom, everything is there again. Hope this helps someone.

[quimnuss]

Oh well, I reinstalled the whole thing so...