# Continuous failure for report generation **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [January 20, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671 "2020-01-20T06:48:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nithani25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nithani25/32/33457_2.png) [@Nithani25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nithani25)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/1 "2020-01-20T06:48:28Z")
Hi Team, I am getting continuous failure with report generation and slack alerting in kibana 6.4. I am trying to generate a dashboard report and send it as a watcher alert(daily,weekly and monthly) alerts. But i am getting continuous failure while trying to do so. Mostly the issue is with GET/POST method and error codes being 401,402 respectively. ## My watcher alert: ``` { "trigger": { "schedule": { "interval": "24h" } }, "input": { "none": {} }, "condition": { "always": {} }, "actions": { "send_email": { "email": { "profile": "standard", "attachments": { "IASDE_weekly_dashboard.pdf": { "http": { "request": { "scheme": "http", "host": "rxxxxxxxxx", "port": 5601, "method": "get", "path": "api/reporting/jobs/download/jpv9n8j219qy69db66c562cx?_g=(time:(from:now-1d%2Fd,mode:quick,to:now))", "params": {}, "headers": {}, "auth": { "basic": { "username": "elastic", "password": "::es_redirected::" } } }, "content_type": "application/pdf" } } }, "priority": "high", "to": [ "nishanth@fxxxmnhsa.com" ], "subject": "Daily Dashboard for IASDE project" } } } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![azasypkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/azasypkin/32/42216_2.png) [@azasypkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azasypkin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/2 "2020-01-20T12:05:45Z")
Hi @Nithani25, You'll need to enable verbose logging in Kibana and gather logs when this happens otherwise it's hard to tell what's going on. Also your `kibana.yml` will be needed (without sensitive info of course). Best, Oleg ---
**Author:** ![Nithani25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nithani25/32/33457_2.png) [@Nithani25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nithani25)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/3 "2020-01-21T07:03:57Z")
I will get you the copy of kibana.yml in short time, but this is what i get when i try to copy paste the generate url link in web browser. ``` { * statusCode: 405, * error: "Method Not Allowed", * message: "GET is not allowed", } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Nithani25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nithani25/32/33457_2.png) [@Nithani25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nithani25)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/4 "2020-01-21T11:29:11Z")
Hi, I finally reached a point where i get only Error[404] during the watcher simulation, any quick thoughts on what's wrong from here will be helpful.. ---
**Author:** ![Nithani25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nithani25/32/33457_2.png) [@Nithani25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nithani25)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/5 "2020-01-22T07:00:56Z")
Here is the copy of my kibana.yml... ``` # 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: "RXXXXXXXXX" # Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. # Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath # from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup. # This setting cannot end in a slash. #server.basePath: "" # Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with # `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy. # This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will # default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0. #server.rewriteBasePath: false # The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests. #server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576 # The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes. server.name: "RXXXXXXXXXXX" # The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries. elasticsearch.url: "http://RXXXXXXXXXX:9200" # When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host # setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host # that connects to this Kibana instance. #elasticsearch.preserveHost: true # Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and # dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist. #kibana.index: ".kibana" # The default application to load. #kibana.defaultAppId: "home" # If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide # the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana # index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which # is proxied through the Kibana server. elasticsearch.username: "elastic" elasticsearch.password: "XXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively. # These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser. #server.ssl.enabled: false #server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt #server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key # Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files. # These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files. #elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt #elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key # Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate # authority for your Elasticsearch instance. #elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"] # To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'. #elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full # Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of # the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting. #elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500 # Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value # must be a positive integer. #elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000 # List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send *no* client-side # headers, set this value to [] (an empty list). #elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization] # Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten # by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration. #elasticsearch.customHeaders: {} # Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable. #elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 30000 # Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying. #elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000 # Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true. #elasticsearch.logQueries: false # Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file. #pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid # Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output. #logging.dest: stdout # Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output. #logging.silent: false # Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages. #logging.quiet: false # Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information # and all requests. #logging.verbose: false # Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance # metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000. #ops.interval: 5000 # The default locale. This locale can be used in certain circumstances to substitute any missing # translations. #i18n.defaultLocale: "en" #xpack security enabled configuration xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.monitoring.kibana.collection.enabled: true ``` ---
**Author:** ![azasypkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/azasypkin/32/42216_2.png) [@azasypkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azasypkin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/6 "2020-01-23T08:39:58Z")
Hi @Nithani25, We still need debug/verbose logs to understand what's going on. Also don't forget to set [`xpack.security.encryptionKey`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/using-kibana-with-security.html) and [`xpack.reporting.encryptionKey`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/reporting-settings-kb.html) to fixed values so that you can decrypt report after Kibana restart. Best, Oleg ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/continuous-failure-for-report-generation/215671/7 "2020-02-20T08:39:58Z")
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