Cannot access Kibana remotely or on local machine

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I have installed ES in a 3 node cluster. I have Kibana on #3 as well. ES is running fine as far as I can tell. Kibana installed and started fine. I have edited the .yml file with the following

Contents of kibana.yml
server.port: 5601
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
server.name: "name"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

I have checked for a listener
[clintd@pdxelastictest03 kibana]$ netstat -nat | grep 5601

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5601 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
[clintd@pdxelastictest03 kibana]$ netstat -nat | grep 9200
tcp6 0 0 127.0.0.1:9200 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 ::1:9200 :::* LISTEN

Attempted to connect from the local machine
[clintd@pdxelastictest03 kibana]$ curl '10.6.48.235:5061'
curl: (7) Failed connect to 10.6.48.235:5061; Connection refused

Found this in the logs:
[clintd@pdxelastictest03 kibana]$ vi kibana.stderr

FATAL Error: Port 5601 is already in use. Another instance of Kibana may be running!

I don't see anything that would suggest Kibana is running anywhere else. I am at a loss. Anyone have ideas that would help me?

2

Which OS are you running? You might try lsof -i :5601 without kibana running to try to determine whether another process is using 5601.

3

That didn't return any values.

4

What kind of cluster are you running? How are you starting the instances?

5

I'm afraid I don't understand the question. I have 3 nodes running ES, I edited the .yml files for each indicating their partners and manually started each one.

6

It sounds like something is trying to start kibana more than once in one of your environments. Are you using a cloud provider? Kubernetes or something similar, etc?

7

It is an on-prem set up. I only have Kibana set up on server #3. I have tried to find anything like it trying to start Kibana twice, or anything else that would claim 5601 but no dice.

8

Are you starting kibana manually from the command line? If so, what command are you running?

9

sudo systemctl start kibana

10

Curious if you've made any progress. What does your kibana.service file look like?

11

No, I have not made any progress unfortunately / fortunately. I am out on vacation for the next 6 days. I will post my file when I return. TY for following up with me.

12

Hey,

server.port: 5601
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
server.name: "name"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

You are telling Kibana to look for himself as an elastic hosts.

server.port: 5601
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
server.name: "name"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://YourElasticHost1:9200", "http://YourElasticHost2:9200"]

Also, since you are running machines, if you are on CentOS7, make sure you have authorized access through your firewall. Test firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5601/tcp, then --reload.

13

I attempted that and still no luck. Output below:
.yml file details-
server.port: 5601
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
server.name: "name"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://hostname01:9200, "http://hostname02:9200"]

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5601/tcp

success

systemctl stop kibana

systemctl start kibana

systemctl status kibana

● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2019-09-09 08:52:54 PDT; 36ms ago
Main PID: 6594 (node)
CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
└─6594 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node --no-warnings --max-http-header-...

curl http://10.6.48.235:5601/api/status

curl: (7) Failed connect to 10.6.48.235:5601; Connection refused

14

Apologies for letting this drop, did you ever solve it? If not, lets take another swing at it.

Thanks

15

No, I was unable to resolve this. After attempting to get the communication to work with the cluster I decided to try and simplify. I uninstalled ES and Kibana one the node in question, then reinstalled as a single node deployment with the intent, that if I could get it working as a single node I could add the other cluster members later. This seemed to help somewhat, but now I receive a notice when attempting to browse to my kibana IP address that, "The Kibana server is not ready."
I am not working through this, but seem stalled again.

16

I have resolved this. How do I close it?

17

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