# FATAL Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-error-eisdir-illegal-operation-on-a-directory-read/245733>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-error-eisdir-illegal-operation-on-a-directory-read/245733 "2020-08-20T08:58:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![myasonik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/myasonik/32/62369_2.png) [@myasonik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/myasonik)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-error-eisdir-illegal-operation-on-a-directory-read/245733/2 "2020-08-20T18:26:39Z")

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Looks like a few people are having this issue and commenting out path.data in kibana.yml seems to fix it for folks. Hope this helps!

Source: [Kibana 7.9.0: Configuring logger failed: { Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-9-0-configuring-logger-failed-error-eisdir-illegal-operation-on-a-directory-read/245653/2)

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