# How to fix ui settings status to green and plugin:elasticsearch@5.0.1\] Status changed from yellow to red - Authentication Exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-ui-settings-status-to-green-and-plugin-elasticsearch-5-0-1-status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-authentication-exception/69110>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 15, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-ui-settings-status-to-green-and-plugin-elasticsearch-5-0-1-status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-authentication-exception/69110 "2016-12-15T04:36:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sanjay1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sanjay1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanjay1)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-ui-settings-status-to-green-and-plugin-elasticsearch-5-0-1-status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-authentication-exception/69110/1 "2016-12-15T04:36:47Z")

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We are getting following error in kibana log file, how to fix those errors.  
log [04:28:49.556] [error][status][plugin:xpack\_main@5.0.1] Status changed from yellow to red - Authentication Exception  
log [04:28:49.558] [error][status][plugin:elasticsearch@5.0.1] Status changed from yellow to red - Authentication Exception

[04:28:49.804] [error][status][ui settings] Status changed from uninitialized to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red

Our kibana.yaml file is as follows:

# 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"  
server.host: "10.20.70.72"

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

# the URLs generated by Kibana, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests

# to Kibana. This setting cannot end in a slash.

#server.basePath: ""

# 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](http://server.name): "your-hostname"

# The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.

#elasticsearch.url: "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"  
elasticsearch.url: "[http://10.20.70.72:9200](http://10.20.70.72:9200)"

# 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  
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"  
kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.

#kibana.defaultAppId: "discover"  
kibana.defaultAppId: "discover"

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

# Paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively. These

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

#server.ssl.cert: /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.cert: /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.ca](http://elasticsearch.ssl.ca): /path/to/your/CA.pem

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting’s value to false.

#elasticsearch.ssl.verify: true

# 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  
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: 0  
elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 0

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

#elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000

# 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

# 

#xpack.reporting.kibanaServer.hostname: "127.0.0.1"  
xpack.security.encryptionKey: "something\_at\_least\_32\_characters"  
#xpack.security.skipSslCheck: true  
#xpack.security.useUnsafeSessions: true  
xpack.security.enabled: false  
xpack.monitoring.enabled: false  
xpack.graph.enabled: false  
xpack.reporting.enabled: false

We had one nod elastic search setup. On on the same node kibana and elastic search is running.

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-ui-settings-status-to-green-and-plugin-elasticsearch-5-0-1-status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-authentication-exception/69110/2 "2016-12-15T14:52:49Z")

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hi @Sanjay1,

have you disabled the plugins in Elasticsearch as well?

Specifically, disable security in the elasticsearch.yml file too.  
`xpack.security.enabled: false`

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**Author:** ![Sanjay1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sanjay1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanjay1)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-ui-settings-status-to-green-and-plugin-elasticsearch-5-0-1-status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-authentication-exception/69110/3 "2016-12-15T15:55:38Z")

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Thank you, Thomas for help.  
I disable the plugins as suggested by xpack.security.enabled: false in elasticsearch.yml and that helps.

Let me start testing it.

As I am new to the Kibana and elastic search may have few more question.

My pupose is to enable the x-pack but landed into few challenges after following the documents ro setup user id/password for kibana user and elstic user.

-Sanjay

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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:** [January 12, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-ui-settings-status-to-green-and-plugin-elasticsearch-5-0-1-status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-authentication-exception/69110/4 "2017-01-12T15:55:39Z")

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