I’m currently trying to upgrade my ELK Stack from 8.17.8 to 8.19.5.
OS is Windows Server 2025
When starting Kibana it fails with the following error log:
[2025-10-23T15:19:48.349+02:00][FATAL][root] Reason: Cannot find module '../series_functions/undefined'
Require stack:
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\lib\load_functions.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\plugin.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugin.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\discovery\plugins_discovery.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\discovery\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugins_service.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\server.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core\server\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\serve\serve.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\cli.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\dist.js
Error: Cannot find module '../series_functions/undefined'
Require stack:
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\lib\load_functions.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\plugin.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugin.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\discovery\plugins_discovery.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\discovery\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugins_service.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\server.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core\server\index.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\serve\serve.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\cli.js
D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\dist.js
at Function._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1401:15)
at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1057:19)
at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1062:22)
at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1211:37)
at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:235:24)
at Module. (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1487:12)
at Module.patchedRequire (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\require-in-the-middle\index.js:194:34)
at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\require-in-the-middle\index.js:142:27)
at Module.patchedRequire (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\require-in-the-middle\index.js:194:34)
at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\require-in-the-middle\index.js:142:27)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
at getTuple (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\lib\load_functions.js:22:19)
at D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\lib\load_functions.js:39:12
at arrayMap (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:653:23)
at Function.map (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:9622:14)
at interceptor (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:17094:35)
at thru (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:8859:14)
at D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:4430:28
at arrayReduce (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:697:21)
at baseWrapperValue (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:4429:14)
at LazyWrapper.lazyValue [as value] (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:1901:16)
at baseWrapperValue (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:4427:25)
at LodashWrapper.wrapperValue (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules\lodash\lodash.js:9114:14)
at _default (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\lib\load_functions.js:40:6)
at TimelionPlugin.setup (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\vis-type-timelion-plugin\server\plugin.js:33:51)
at PluginWrapper.setup (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugin.js:86:26)
at PluginsSystem.setupPlugins (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugins_system.js:103:40)
at PluginsService.setup (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-plugins-server-internal\src\plugins_service.js:120:19)
at Server.setup (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\server.js:383:26)
at Root.setup (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\root\index.js:58:14)
at bootstrap (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\node_modules@kbn\core-root-server-internal\src\bootstrap.js:118:5)
at Command. (D:\progs\kibana\kibana-8.19.5\src\cli\serve\serve.js:236:5)
[2025-10-23T15:19:48.360+02:00][INFO ][plugins-system.preboot] Stopping all plugins.
[2025-10-23T15:19:48.364+02:00][INFO ][plugins-system.preboot] All plugins stopped.
[2025-10-23T15:19:48.365+02:00][INFO ][plugins-system.standard] Stopping all plugins.
[2025-10-23T15:19:48.375+02:00][INFO ][plugins-system.standard] All plugins stopped.
When using 8.19.4 i get the same error…