How do i start .Kibana Index?

Elastic Stack Kibana
1

While starting the kibana 4 instance, i am getting below error. Is there any configuration issue in Kibana or Elasticsearch ?

{"@timestamp":"2015-05-14T15:20:25.035Z","level":"error","message":"IndexClosedException[[.kibana]

closed]","node_env":"production","error":{"message":"IndexClosedException[[.kibana]
closed]","name":"Error","stack":"Error: IndexClosedException[[.kibana]
closed]\n at respond
(/home/ec2-user/install/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:235:15)\n
at checkRespForFailure
(/home/ec2-user/install/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n
at HttpConnector.
(/home/ec2-user/install/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n
at IncomingMessage.bound
(/home/ec2-user/install/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node_modules/elasticsearch/node_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at
_stream_readable.js:944:16\n at process._tickCallback
(node.js:442:13)\n"}}

2

I think you should be able to issue an open index command and be good to go, but you might want to find out why the index was closed to begin with.