Fresh install of Kibana 5.6.2 running on default settings isn't working

Hi there,

I've installed both Elasticsearch and Kibana 5.6.2 on Windows 10 x64. Running elasticsearch seems to work just fine, I get the expected server output and the REST API is accessible at localhost:9200

curl localhost:9200
{
  "name" : "IFhcBfL",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid" : "ZCJwAdJORMWOgY-x2CICVw",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "5.6.2",
    "build_hash" : "57e20f3",
    "build_date" : "2017-09-23T13:16:45.703Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "6.6.1"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

However, when I run kibana on default settings, following the tutorial here, I get Status: Red and it appears the plugin:elasticsearch@5.6.2 is timing out.


I'm pretty sure I followed the setup instructions correctly, am I missing something here?

Okay, I'm getting a cluster health of "yellow" on when I call the API

epoch      timestamp cluster       status node.total node.data shards pri relo init unassign pending_tasks max_task_wait_time active_shards_percent
1507329267 18:34:27  elasticsearch yellow          1         1      1   1    0    0        1             0                  -                 50.0%

It was green before I posted this, and I literally haven't done anything to it so I'm at a loss :cry:

What does _cat/shards show?
Also is there anything in the Kibana logs?

Hi, thanks for the reply!

_cat/shards shows

.kibana 0 p STARTED    0 162b 127.0.0.1 IFhcBfL
.kibana 0 r UNASSIGNED     

And the kibana logs show

  log   [22:37:27.456] [info][status][plugin:kibana@5.6.2] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [22:37:27.519] [info][status][plugin:elasticsearch@5.6.2] Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch
  log   [22:37:27.534] [info][status][plugin:console@5.6.2] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [22:37:27.550] [info][status][plugin:metrics@5.6.2] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [22:37:27.706] [info][status][plugin:timelion@5.6.2] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [22:37:27.706] [info][listening] Server running at http://localhost:5601
  log   [22:37:27.706] [info][status][ui settings] Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Elasticsearch plugin is yellow
  log   [22:37:28.925] [info][status][plugin:elasticsearch@5.6.2] Status changed from yellow to green - Kibana index ready
  log   [22:37:28.925] [info][status][ui settings] Status changed from yellow to green - Ready

...looks like now it works? Lol I haven't done anything at all. Except for restarting both instances a couple times.

@warkolm out of curiosity, what is this UNASSIGNED shard to the second .kibana instance? Is this just a default object?

You cannot assign primary and replica shards to the same node, so unless you add more nodes or remove the replica it'll always be unassigned.

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