# Getting error while setting up alters system in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-setting-up-alters-system-in-kibana/273449>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 19, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-setting-up-alters-system-in-kibana/273449 "2021-05-19T21:17:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Umesh\_Kumar\_Sah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/umesh_kumar_sah/32/88986_2.png) [@Umesh\_Kumar\_Sah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Umesh_Kumar_Sah)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-setting-up-alters-system-in-kibana/273449/1 "2021-05-19T21:17:12Z")

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Can anyone plz help me out this issue?

May 20 02:41:18 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.  
May 20 02:41:18 devopsengineering systemd[1]: Stopped Kibana.  
May 20 02:41:18 devopsengineering systemd[1]: Started Kibana.  
May 20 02:41:19 devopsengineering kibana[107756]: FATAL Error: [config validation of [server].ssl]: cannot use [key] when [keystore.path] is specified  
May 20 02:41:19 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
May 20 02:41:19 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
May 20 02:41:23 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.  
May 20 02:41:23 devopsengineering systemd[1]: Stopped Kibana.  
May 20 02:41:23 devopsengineering systemd[1]: Started Kibana.  
May 20 02:41:24 devopsengineering kibana[107774]: FATAL Error: [config validation of [server].ssl]: cannot use [key] when [keystore.path] is specified  
May 20 02:41:24 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
May 20 02:41:24 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
May 20 02:41:27 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.  
May 20 02:41:27 devopsengineering systemd[1]: Stopped Kibana.  
May 20 02:41:27 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Start request repeated too quickly.  
May 20 02:41:27 devopsengineering systemd[1]: kibana.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.  
May 20 02:41:27 devopsengineering systemd[1]: Failed to start Kibana.  
^C

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-setting-up-alters-system-in-kibana/273449/2 "2021-05-19T23:08:47Z")

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Can you please explain what version are you on? what are the steps you did ? how did u install? screenshots... am thinking this is a set up issue. Can you obfuscate the sensitive info and paste the kibana.yml here

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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:** [June 16, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-setting-up-alters-system-in-kibana/273449/3 "2021-06-16T23:09:41Z")

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