# Kibana-7.6.1 startup error：“Elastic APM initialization error: ……” **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 26, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809 "2020-04-26T05:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LuckyNemo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luckynemo/32/67133_2.png) [@LuckyNemo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LuckyNemo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809/1 "2020-04-26T05:53:48Z")
Environment： 3 nodes（all deploy es nodes and kibana nodes） version：elasticsearch7.6.1 and kibana-7.6.1（both r RPM installed） ES nodes worked fine，but when I start kibana nodes,throw exception as follows： ```auto Elastic APM initialization error: Can't read config file /usr/share/kibana/config/apm.js Error: Cannot find module 'lodash.merge' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18) at Object. (/etc/kibana/apm.js:53:15) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3) APM Server transport error (ECONNREFUSED): connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8200 ``` I do not know how to deal with it , can anyone help me，thx a lot. ---
**Author:** ![LuckyNemo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luckynemo/32/67133_2.png) [@LuckyNemo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LuckyNemo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809/2 "2020-04-26T05:55:33Z")
Here r some config in elasticsearch.yml ```auto action.auto_create_index: auto-*,.monitoring* http.cors.enabled: true http.cors.allow-origin: "*" xpack.security.enabled: false xpack.monitoring.enabled: true xpack.graph.enabled: false xpack.watcher.enabled: false xpack.ml.enabled: false action.destructive_requires_name: true ``` ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809/3 "2020-05-04T14:26:45Z")
To me it looks like a corrupted install of Kibana. Any way you could reinstall it? ---
**Author:** ![LuckyNemo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luckynemo/32/67133_2.png) [@LuckyNemo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LuckyNemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809/4 "2020-05-06T07:10:27Z")
I have already reinstall at least 3 times, doesn't work！pity…… ---
**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809/5 "2020-05-06T17:54:52Z")
Try deleting deleting the contents of node\_modules and performing `npm install` again and see if it works. or maybe it needs to be globally installed ```auto npm install -g lodash ``` Thanks Rashmi ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-6-1-startup-error-elastic-apm-initialization-error/229809/6 "2020-06-03T17:55:05Z")
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