# Configuration of kibana with elasticsearch 8 Cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-elasticsearch-8-cluster/373235
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-elasticsearch-8-cluster/373235 "2025-01-15T14:59:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![b\_Ensberg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/b_ensberg/32/114291_2.png) [@b\_Ensberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/b_Ensberg)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-elasticsearch-8-cluster/373235/1 "2025-01-15T14:59:46Z")

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Good morning;  
Please, I would like to ask you a question regarding the configuration of kibana.  
Normally there are two ways to configure the kibana connection with elasticsearch :

- Elasticsearch.username/elasticsearch.password  
or
- The enrollment token

When I use the login/password of "kibana\_system", Kibana works correctly.  
On the other hand, when I just use the token, Kibana launches fine, but it remains stuck on: Kibana server is not ready yet

```auto
# For more configuration options see the configuration guide for Kibana in
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html

# =================== System: Kibana Server ===================
# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.
# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
server.host: "189.000.71.169"

elasticsearch.hosts: ["https://189.000.71.169:9200"]

elasticsearch.username: "kibana_system"
elasticsearch.password: "<password>"

# Kibana can also authenticate to Elasticsearch via "service account tokens".
# Service account tokens are Bearer style tokens that replace the traditional username/password based configuration.
# Use this token instead of a username/password.
#elasticsearch.serviceAccountToken: "eyJ2ZXIiOiI4LjUuMCIsImFkciI6WyIxNzMuMTk5LjcxLjE0NDo5MjAwIl0sImZnciIhNTk2MDgzM2Y5YTEzNzY4MmM2MDQ2ZDc3ZThkOTNmMjAiLCJrZXkiOiJ2amNGYXBRQktjZNbFJ5V2tSOG1Wd3BCSzR3In0="

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/etc/kibana/certs/http_ca.crt"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
#elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# =================== System: Logging ===================
# Set the value of this setting to off to suppress all logging output, or to debug to log everything. Defaults to 'info'
#logging.root.level: debug

# Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
logging:
  appenders:
    file:
      type: file
      fileName: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log
      layout:
        type: json
  root:
    appenders:
      - default
      - file
# layout:
# type: json

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch.
#logging.loggers:
# - name: elasticsearch.query
# level: debug

# Logs http responses.
#logging.loggers:
# - name: http.server.response
# level: debug

# Logs system usage information.
#logging.loggers:
# - name: metrics.ops
# level: debug

# =================== System: Other ===================
# The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch. Defaults to data
#path.data: data

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.
pid.file: /run/kibana/kibana.pid

```

 ![Kibana not yet](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/4/f4d134e39df10627bf456c6d7ad2debacdbd8f5b.jpeg)

any idea please ?

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### Author: ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-elasticsearch-8-cluster/373235/2 "2025-01-15T17:03:09Z")

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Hi @b_Ensberg,

Welcome back! I've removed the password from your configuration. Can you confirm that the enrollment token is correct?

Can you check the common fixes in [this post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-server-is-not-ready-yet/241217), and also share the output of the logs. It might be an authentication or other issue.

If there is a error associated with the token you could try regenerating the enrollement token [using the elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token util](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/create-enrollment-token.html).

Hope that helps!