# Kibana 8.18 Problem with generating PDF reports

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-problem-with-generating-pdf-reports/378926
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** kql-kibana-query-language, kibana-plugin-development
**Created:** [June 5, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-problem-with-generating-pdf-reports/378926 "2025-06-05T15:04:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![hofrichterovak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@hofrichterovak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hofrichterovak)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-problem-with-generating-pdf-reports/378926/1 "2025-06-05T15:04:10Z")

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Hello,

I am using the user "elastic" to generate PDF reports. Everything worked on version 7.17, but after upgrading to version 8.18 it shows me an error when generating PDF reports - please, see image.

What should I set so that superuser "elastic" can generate PDF reports?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/3/238f9dc84c6c90d09225cbc7d1bcca3d15b74030.png)

Thanks,  
Cate

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-problem-with-generating-pdf-reports/378926/2 "2025-06-06T05:18:00Z")

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Hello @hofrichterovak

As per the shared blog please check below 2 on your cluster :

1. The disk space is OK on all the nodes.
2. If all the Kibana nodes in your cluster have been upgraded successfully.

[Reference Blog]  
(["Forbidden" error when saving Dashboards](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-error-when-saving-dashboards/364542))

Thanks!!