# How to configure Kibana.yml to create custom region maps?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778 "2019-11-06T11:05:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/1 "2019-11-06T11:05:17Z")

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Hi, I want to create custom Region map for all the cities in UK. I tried the United Kingdom Subdivisions in the vector map dropdown, but it won't show all the drop down.

I followed this link: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/custom-region-maps-in-kibana-6-0](https://www.elastic.co/blog/custom-region-maps-in-kibana-6-0)

And have pasted the Custom Region Map config in the yml file below.

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong and how to do this.

# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.

#server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.

# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.

# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.

#server.host: "localhost"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.

# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath

# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.

# This setting cannot end in a slash.

#server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with

# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.

# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will

# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.

#server.rewriteBasePath: false

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.

#server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.

#server.name: "your-hostname"

# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.

#elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"]

# When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host

# setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host

# that connects to this Kibana instance.

#elasticsearch.preserveHost: true

# Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and

# dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.

#kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.

#kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

# If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide

# the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana

# index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which

# is proxied through the Kibana server.

#elasticsearch.username: "kibana"  
#elasticsearch.password: "pass"

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.

# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.

#server.ssl.enabled: false  
#server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt  
#server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.

# These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.

#elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt  
#elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate

# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.

#elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.

#elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of

# the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.

#elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value

# must be a positive integer.

#elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send _no_ client-side

# headers, set this value to (an empty list).

#elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization]

# Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten

# by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.

#elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.

#elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 30000

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.

#elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true.

#elasticsearch.logQueries: false

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.

#pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid

# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.

#logging.dest: stdout

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.

#logging.silent: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.

#logging.quiet: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information

# and all requests.

#logging.verbose: false

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance

# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.

#ops.interval: 5000

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.

# Supported languages are the following: English - en , by default , Chinese - zh-CN .

#i18n.locale: "en"

# Custom Region Maps

#regionmap:  
#layers:  
#- name: "UK Cities"  
#url: "[https://gist.githubusercontent.com/duhaime/1d6d5a8dc77c86128fcc1a05a72726c9/raw/8b8522cbc69498b6c4983a9f58c045c2b451cb89/british-isles-counties.geojson](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/duhaime/1d6d5a8dc77c86128fcc1a05a72726c9/raw/8b8522cbc69498b6c4983a9f58c045c2b451cb89/british-isles-counties.geojson)"

```
   #fields:
      #- name: "CITY_NAME"
        #description: "City Name"
```

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**Author:** ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/2 "2019-11-07T12:54:51Z")

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Be sure to remove the `#` at the beginning of your lines. Otherwise the lines are read as a comment.

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**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/3 "2019-11-08T04:14:11Z")

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Okay thanks @nickpeihl

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**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/4 "2019-11-08T08:01:29Z")

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Hi @nickpeihl, I removed the # before the lines and this is this output I'm getting in the cmd line.

C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\bin\>kibana  
log [07:55:20.367] [info][plugins-system] Setting up [4] plugins: [security,translations,inspector,data]  
log [07:55:20.374] [info][plugins][security] Setting up plugin  
log [07:55:20.375] [warning][config][plugins][security] Generating a random key for xpack.security.encryptionKey. To prevent sessions from being invalidated on restart, please set xpack.security.encryptionKey in kibana.yml  
log [07:55:20.376] [warning][config][plugins][security] Session cookies will be transmitted over insecure connections. This is not recommended.  
log [07:55:20.380] [fatal][root] { Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/path/to/your/CA.pem'  
at Object.openSync (fs.js:439:3)  
at readFileSync (fs.js:344:35)  
at readFile (C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\src\core\server\elasticsearch\elasticsearch\_client\_config.js:114:49)  
at Array.map ()  
at parseElasticsearchClientConfig (C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\src\core\server\elasticsearch\elasticsearch\_client\_config.js:117:63)  
at new ClusterClient (C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\src\core\server\elasticsearch\cluster\_client.js:126:109)  
at ElasticsearchService.createClusterClient (C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\src\core\server\elasticsearch\elasticsearch\_service.js:85:12)  
at Object.createClient (C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\src\core\server\elasticsearch\elasticsearch\_service.js:68:21)  
at Plugin.createClient [as setup] (C:\Users\ramya.t\Downloads\Colt\ELK\kibana-7.4.0\x-pack\plugins\security\server/plugin.js:44:45)  
at process.\_tickCallback (internal/process/next\_tick.js:68:7)  
errno: -4058,  
syscall: 'open',  
code: 'ENOENT',  
path: '/path/to/your/CA.pem' }

FATAL Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/path/to/your/CA.pem'

**I'm new to ELK** , kindly help. I've pasted my kibana.yml file in another reply due to space restrictions.

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**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/5 "2019-11-08T08:02:17Z")

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My kibana.yml file. What am I doing wrong here?

# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.

server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.

# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.

# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.

server.host: "localhost"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.

# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath

# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.

# This setting cannot end in a slash.

server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with

# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.

# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will

# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.

server.rewriteBasePath: false

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.

server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.

server.name: "your-hostname"

# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"]

# When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host

# setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host

# that connects to this Kibana instance.

elasticsearch.preserveHost: true

# Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and

# dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.

kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.

kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

# If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide

# the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana

# index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which

# is proxied through the Kibana server.

elasticsearch.username: "kibana"  
elasticsearch.password: "pass"

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.

# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.

server.ssl.enabled: false  
server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt  
server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.

# These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.

elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt  
elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate

# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.

elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of

# the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.

elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value

# must be a positive integer.

elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send _no_ client-side

# headers, set this value to (an empty list).

elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization]

# Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten

# by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.

elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.

elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 30000

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.

elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true.

elasticsearch.logQueries: false

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.

pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid

# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.

logging.dest: stdout

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.

logging.silent: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.

logging.quiet: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information

# and all requests.

logging.verbose: false

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance

# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.

ops.interval: 5000

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.

# Supported languages are the following: English - en , by default , Chinese - zh-CN .

i18n.locale: "en"

server.cors : true  
server.cors.origin: "\*"

# Custom Region Maps

regionmap:  
layers:  
- name: "UK Major Cities and Towns"  
url: "[http://localhost:8000/Major\_Towns\_and\_Cities.geojson](http://localhost:8000/Major_Towns_and_Cities.geojson)"  
fields:  
- name: "tcity15nm"  
description: "City Name"

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**Author:** ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/6 "2019-11-13T17:53:48Z")

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My apologies. I meant you should only remove the `#` before the lines where you define your custom region map. That may be the cause of the error.

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**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/7 "2019-11-14T06:19:18Z")

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Thank you @nickpeihl. Figured it out eventually 🙂

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778/8 "2019-12-12T06:19:22Z")

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