# How do i start .Kibana Index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-start-kibana-index/697>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-start-kibana-index/697 "2015-05-14T15:45:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![woosi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woosi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/woosi)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-start-kibana-index/697/1 "2015-05-14T15:45:38Z")

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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"}}

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-start-kibana-index/697/2 "2015-05-14T16:48:06Z")

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> [@woosi](#):
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> Error: IndexClosedException[[.kibana]

I think you should be able to issue an [open index command](http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.x/indices-open-close.html) and be good to go, but you might want to find out why the index was closed to begin with.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-start-kibana-index/697/3 "2017-07-06T14:19:31Z")

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