# Failed to deserialize response of type org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 26, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054 "2016-08-26T15:59:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![ave19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ave19/32/11631_2.png) [@ave19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ave19)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/1 "2016-08-26T15:59:29Z")

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I installed a new license yesterday. Things were working great. This morning, I restarted my master node. Things seem OK from a `curl` perspective. I can do stuff. Authentication is working.

Kibana however, is not happy:

```auto
{ 
   "type": "log",
   "@timestamp": "2016-08-26T15:25:45Z",
   "tags": ["status","plugin:security@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],
   "pid": 35839,
   "state": "red",
   "message": "Status changed from red to red - Service Unavailable",
   "prevState":"red",
   "prevMsg": "[transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]"
}

```

And the web page has

```
Login is currently disabled because the license could not be determined.
Please check that Elasticsearch is running, then refresh this page.

```

So... yeah... any suggestions?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ave19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ave19/32/11631_2.png) [@ave19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ave19)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/2 "2016-08-26T18:54:33Z")

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Found another log event:

```auto
[2016-08-26 14:51:20,169][WARN][rest.suppressed] path: _xpack/usage, params: {}
RemoteTransportException[[Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]]]; nested: TransportSerializationException[Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]]; nested: ClassCastException[java.lang.Double cannot be cast to java.util.Map];
Caused by: TransportSerializationException[Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]]; nested: ClassCastException[java.lang.Double cannot be cast to java.util.Map];
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.handleResponse(TcpTransport.java:1234)
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.messageReceived(TcpTransport.java:1206)
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty4.Netty4MessageChannelHandler.channelRead(Netty4MessageChannelHandler.java:74)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:350)
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:293)
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:280)
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:396)
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:248)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:350)
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1334)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358)
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:926)
	at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:129)
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:571)
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysPlain(NioEventLoop.java:474)
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:428)
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:398)
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$5.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:877)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Double cannot be cast to java.util.Map
	at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput.readMap(StreamInput.java:437)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.SecurityFeatureSet$Usage.<init>(SecurityFeatureSet.java:172)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableAwareStreamInput.readNamedWriteable(NamedWriteableAwareStreamInput.java:40)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse.readFrom(XPackUsageResponse.java:60)
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.handleResponse(TcpTransport.java:1231)
	... 23 more

```

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/3 "2016-08-26T20:37:02Z")

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Hey Dave,

What does the response from [`/_xpack/license`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/listing-licenses.html) look like?

Are you seeing any errors or warnings in your Kibana logs?

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**Author:** ![ave19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ave19/32/11631_2.png) [@ave19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ave19)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/4 "2016-08-29T14:40:29Z")

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Hey Tyler! (I XXX'd our organization so I don't have to stop ask for permission to type it 🙂 )

```auto
$ curl -s -XGET elastic:changeme@localhost:9205/_xpack/license?pretty
{
  "license" : {
    "status" : "active",
    "uid" : "b925c19f-ce62-4851-b95a-6f0efec26fee",
    "type" : "trial",
    "issue_date" : "2016-08-25T00:00:00.000Z",
    "issue_date_in_millis" : 1472083200000,
    "expiry_date" : "2016-09-27T23:59:59.999Z",
    "expiry_date_in_millis" : 1475020799999,
    "max_nodes" : 15,
    "issued_to" : "XXX",
    "issuer" : "Aunik Bhattacharjee"
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![ave19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ave19/32/11631_2.png) [@ave19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ave19)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/5 "2016-08-29T14:50:01Z")

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There's this...

```auto
{
    "@timestamp": "2016-08-29T14:45:23Z",
    "message": "GET /api/xpack/v1/info 404 3ms - 9.0B",
    "method": "get",
    "pid": 29898,
    "req": {
        "headers": {
            "accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*",
            "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, sdch, br",
            "accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.8",
            "connection": "Keep-Alive",
            "host": "127.0.0.1:5602",
            "kbn-version": "5.0.0-alpha5",
            "referer": "https://foo.com/kibana_v5/login?next=%2F",
            "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36",
            "x-forwarded-for": "192.168.0.1",
            "x-forwarded-host": "foo.com",
            "x-forwarded-server": "foo.com"
        },
        "method": "get",
        "referer": "https://foo.com/kibana_v5/login?next=%2F",
        "remoteAddress": "127.0.0.1",
        "url": "/api/xpack/v1/info",
        "userAgent": "127.0.0.1"
    },
    "res": {
        "contentLength": 9,
        "responseTime": 3,
        "statusCode": 404
    },
    "statusCode": 404,
    "tags": [],
    "type": "response"
}

```

Everything else is status 200 or 304. When I hit that with `curl` I don't get a 404.

```auto
$ curl -vs -XGET elastic:changeme@localhost:5602/api/xpack/v1/info       
* About to connect() to localhost port 5602 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5602 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'elastic'
> GET /api/xpack/v1/info HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic ZWxhc3RpYzpjaGFuZ2VtZQ==
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.19.1 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: localhost:5602
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< kbn-name: kibana
< kbn-version: 5.0.0-alpha5
< set-cookie: sid=Fe26.2 **8af22d60d7dfa515655d4d746c27f544dc141d2a38eb0eccd0fdd8011f711695*E3q5RWeAzQD8xxbL_l8Oag*XBNlsN-DGNUOEIyl4iuzwQJilgsTAAC5u_1uR-1NgNuYNx1hx4lPAD5UuLQp3DdL01SDNrceIFsq9sx2uQke0tb0M_ecwxaW9OJpTXmz3E0** ecb3b8da3283fd1996e8ec5ffd4c34581de8aa279cc7c78c4ab5a6635543a08a*O3UDxRz1NYSwLmNZzdvlYyBDj07b2r6Qlwrv0iBj06w; HttpOnly; Path=/kibana_v5/
< cache-control: no-cache
< content-length: 119
< accept-ranges: bytes
< Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:54:58 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< 
<html>
<head><script type="text/javascript">window.location.reload();</script></head>
<body>reloading...</body>
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0
</html>

```

Oh, but if I leave off the authentication, I get:

```auto
$ curl -vs -XGET 127.0.0.1:5602/api/xpack/v1/info
* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 5602 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 5602 (#0)
> GET /api/xpack/v1/info HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.19.1 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: 127.0.0.1:5602
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< kbn-name: kibana
< kbn-version: 5.0.0-alpha5
< content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< cache-control: no-cache
< content-length: 38
< Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:00:36 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< 
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
* Closing connection #0
{"statusCode":404,"error":"Not Found"}

```

Is this a chicken and egg type problem? Kibana is loading the login page, but blocks out the username/password because it can't find the license info, which it can't get unless you log in? Catch-22?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ave19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ave19/32/11631_2.png) [@ave19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ave19)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/6 "2016-08-29T19:05:05Z")

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Looks like it's not chicken and egg, catch 22. The "failed to deserialize" comes after the license expiry check.

Here's some Kibana logs:

```auto
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:markdown_vis@5.0.0-alpha5","info"],"pid":29898,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["license","info","xpack"],"pid":29898,"message":"Imported license information from Elasticsearch: mode: trial | status: active | expiry date: 2016-09-27T19:59:59-04:00"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:metric_vis@5.0.0-alpha5","info"],"pid":29898,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:spy_modes@5.0.0-alpha5","info"],"pid":29898,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:status_page@5.0.0-alpha5","info"],"pid":29898,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:table_vis@5.0.0-alpha5","info"],"pid":29898,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["listening","info"],"pid":29898,"message":"Server running at http://127.0.0.1:5602"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","ui settings","info"],"pid":29898,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack_main@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - [transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:graph@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - [transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:reporting@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - [transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:15Z","tags":["status","plugin:security@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - [transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:17Z","tags":["status","plugin:monitoring@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from green to red - Service Unavailable","prevState":"green","prevMsg":"Ready"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:17Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack_main@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - Service Unavailable","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"[transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:17Z","tags":["status","plugin:graph@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - Service Unavailable","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"[transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-26T18:51:17Z","tags":["status","plugin:reporting@5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","error"],"pid":29898,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - Service Unavailable","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"[transport_serialization_exception] Failed to deserialize response of type [org.elasticsearch.xpack.action.XPackUsageResponse]"}

```

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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Isett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matthew_isett/32/57770_2.png) [@Matthew\_Isett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matthew_Isett)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/7 "2016-08-30T01:29:58Z")

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Dave -  
This is a confirmed bug with the fix in Beta1. The workaround is to point Kibana at the elected Master.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-deserialize-response-of-type-org-elasticsearch-xpack-action-xpackusageresponse/59054/8 "2017-07-06T13:39:58Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:39pm UTC