Kibana 6.2.3 Restarts Constantly

[Jon_D (Jonas D)]

Ok, and can you su as kibana and then go to /usr/share/kibana/bin and run it from there (using ./kibana)? I assume the result will be the same but I guess it's worth a try.

One other thing, does your user have access to write the pid file in /var/run/kibana.pid?

Additionally, maybe you could try increasing the log level by uncommenting logging.verbose: true in kibana.yml

[rcoundon]

@Jon_D

logging.verbose: true

So here's a curious thing. I changed the kibana.service file and did daemon-reload. I was asked to authenticate with either kibana or elastic
Kibana doesn't have a password so I did it with elastic.
Restarted the service and it worked!

I've done this a number of times in the course of the testing between root and kibana but this is the first time it's asked me for authorisation.

Odd but it's working - thanks so much.

[rcoundon]

@Jon_D

/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service

Spoke too soon! I restarted again to turn off verbose logging and it won't start again!

Tail of verbose logs look like this:

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/elasticsearch","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/elasticsearch"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/input_control_vis","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/input_control_vis"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/kbn_doc_views","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/kbn_doc_views"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/kbn_vislib_vis_types","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/kbn_vislib_vis_types"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/kibana","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/kibana"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/markdown_vis","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/markdown_vis"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/metric_vis","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/metric_vis"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/metrics","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/metrics"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/region_map","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/region_map"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/spy_modes","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/spy_modes"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/state_session_storage_redirect","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/state_session_storage_redirect"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/status_page","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/status_page"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/table_vis","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/table_vis"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/tagcloud","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/tagcloud"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/tile_map","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/tile_map"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/timelion","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/timelion"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:43Z","tags":["plugin","debug"],"pid":3635,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/vega","message":"Found plugin at /usr/share/kibana/src/core_plugins/vega"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:44Z","tags":["debug","optimize"],"pid":3635,"message":"All bundles are cached and ready to go!"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-04-25T07:17:44Z","tags":["plugins","debug"],"pid":3635,"plugin":{"name":"input_control_vis","version":"kibana"},"message":"Initializing plugin input_control_vis@kibana"}