# Khibana Dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 9, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029 "2018-11-09T11:00:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 17\
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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/1 "2018-11-09T11:00:59Z")

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Hi, there  
I was trying to configure elasticsearch and kihbana on LINUX ( ubunutu 18.04 ). After following steps given in official doc i am getting below response of khibana screen

**It appears you're running the oss-only distribution of Elasticsearch.**

**To use the full set of free features in this distribution of Kibana, please update Elasticsearch to the [default distribution](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch).**

Same issue i faced on os X

Any suggestion will be helpfull

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/2 "2018-11-09T11:15:38Z")

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Which set of steps are you following?

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/3 "2018-11-09T11:19:26Z")

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Thanks for reply.  
[https://www.elastic.co/downloads](https://www.elastic.co/downloads)

From this link i downloaded  
1- Easticsearch.  
2- kihbana  
3- Logstash

and below video  
[https://www.elastic.co/webinars/getting-started-elasticsearch?baymax=rtp&storm=learn&rogue=pt-webinar-test&iesrc=ctr](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/getting-started-elasticsearch?baymax=rtp&storm=learn&rogue=pt-webinar-test&iesrc=ctr)

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/4 "2018-11-09T11:20:42Z")

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What are the names of the files you have downloaded?

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/5 "2018-11-09T11:24:01Z")

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I tried both  
MACOS/LINUX  
and  
DEB

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/6 "2018-11-09T11:24:35Z")

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That does not answer my question. What are the actual file names you downloaded?

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/7 "2018-11-09T11:25:44Z")

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kibana-6.4.3-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz  
elasticsearch-6.4.3.tar.gz

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/8 "2018-11-09T11:27:48Z")

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Good. That is the default distribution, which should not give you the message you quoted.

Once downloaded, did you extract them locally and then start them through the bin directory? If you can describe the steps we might be able to tell where it went wrong. Please also share a screenshot of the error in Kibana.

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/9 "2018-11-09T11:36:53Z")

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Sure.  
Steps:  
First downloaded  
1- elasticsearch-6.4.3.tar.gz  
Extracted the tar file and made changes in elasticsearch.yml file.  
and then ./bin/elasticsearch

2- kibana-6.4.3-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz  
Extracted the tar file and made required changes in kibana.yml file  
Executed file ./bin/kibana

 ![Screenshot%20from%202018-11-09%2017-06-14](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/7/87484412232c299e2befe586efaf2350a65a73c9.png)

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/10 "2018-11-10T07:24:56Z")

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**Any update please**

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/11 "2018-11-10T09:13:18Z")

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Can you show the configuration changes you made to elasticsearch.yml and kibana.yml?

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/12 "2018-11-11T03:11:04Z")

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**Elasticsearch** :  
/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

```auto
network.host: localhost

```

Save and exit elasticsearch.yml  
and then restarted elastic search

**Kihbana:**  
/opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml

```auto
server.host: "localhost"

```

then, Save and exit.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/13 "2018-11-11T07:08:18Z")

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What response do you get if you run ‘curl localhost:9200” on the host? Is there any chance you already have another Elasticsearch server running?

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/14 "2018-11-14T04:25:23Z")

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Sorry for late reply:  
{  
"name" : "Georgianna Castleberry",  
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch",  
"cluster\_uuid" : "qrXBnlAxQNu24FPOQsw1Mg",  
"version" : {  
"number" : "2.4.6",  
"build\_hash" : "5376dca9f70f3abef96a77f4bb22720ace8240fd",  
"build\_timestamp" : "2017-07-18T12:17:44Z",  
"build\_snapshot" : false,  
"lucene\_version" : "5.5.4"  
},  
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"  
}

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/15 "2018-11-14T06:24:17Z")

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It looks like you have an old version of Elasticsearch running on that host, which is not compatible with Kibana. Either shut this down or configure the new version to use a different port. If the default port is not used, Kibana config also need to be updated.

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**Author:** ![shakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@shakir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shakir)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/16 "2018-11-14T06:50:43Z")

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Thanks. Let me try with updated version of Elasticsearch .

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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:** [December 12, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/khibana-dashboard/156029/17 "2018-12-12T06:50:47Z")

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