# Kibana ciphers not bringing up the port 5601

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ciphers-not-bringing-up-the-port-5601/239542>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 1, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ciphers-not-bringing-up-the-port-5601/239542 "2020-07-01T20:09:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![funlearning321](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/funlearning321/32/56803_2.png) [@funlearning321](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/funlearning321)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ciphers-not-bringing-up-the-port-5601/239542/1 "2020-07-01T20:09:24Z")

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Hi,

I have added the below configuration in kibana.yml but however, when the service is restarted, kibana is throwing error.

> server.ssl.cipherSuites: "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256,DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256,HIGH,!aNULL,!eNULL,!EXPORT,!DES,!RC4,!MD5,!PSK,!SRP,!CAMELLIA"

ERROR:

> kibana[17335]: FATAL Error: [config validation of [server].ssl.cipherSuites]: could not parse array value from json input

I have also tried without quotes as per documentation but still facing the same issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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**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:** [July 1, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ciphers-not-bringing-up-the-port-5601/239542/2 "2020-07-01T20:14:43Z")

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> [@funlearning321](#):
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> FATAL Error: [config validation of [server].ssl.cipherSuites]:

Have you given the right configurations in `kibana.yml` Can you plz paste it by deleting the sensitive information. More reference can be found here: [Security settings in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-settings.html)

cc @oleg any more inputs here?

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![funlearning321](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/funlearning321/32/56803_2.png) [@funlearning321](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/funlearning321)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ciphers-not-bringing-up-the-port-5601/239542/3 "2020-07-02T18:16:28Z")

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Please find the below requested kibana.yml

```
# 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: "XXXXXXXXXXX"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.
# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath
# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.
# This setting cannot end in a slash.
#server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with
# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.
# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will
# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.
#server.rewriteBasePath: false

# 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: kibanaHost1

# The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://elasticsearchhost1:9200"]

# 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

# 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"

# The default application to load.
#kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

# 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: "kibana"
elasticsearch.password: ${elasticsearch.password}

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.
# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.
#server.ssl.enabled: false
#server.ssl.certificate: /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.certificate: /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.certificateAuthorities: ["/etc/kibana/certs/elastic-certificates.pem"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: none

# 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

# 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: 30000

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.
#elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true.
#elasticsearch.logQueries: false

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.
pid.file: /var/run/kibana/kibana.pid

# Specifies the path where Kibana stores the data.
path.data: /var/lib/kibana

# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
logging.dest: /opt/kibana/logs/kibana.log

# 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

# The default locale. This locale can be used in certain circumstances to substitute any missing
# translations.
#i18n.defaultLocale: "en"

# XPack configuration for APM
xpack.apm.ui.maxTraceItems: 5000

# XPack configuration for Enabling Security Audit in Kibana
xpack.security.audit.enabled: "true"

# XPack security key for multiple kibana instances
xpack.security.encryptionKey: " *************************"

###ciphers
server.ssl.cipherSuites: "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256,DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256,HIGH,!aNULL,!eNULL,!EXPORT,!DES,!RC4,!MD5,!PSK,!SRP,!CAMELLIA"
```

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ciphers-not-bringing-up-the-port-5601/239542/4 "2020-07-30T18:16:33Z")

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