# Kibana constantly restarts after trying to connect it to ES URL
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-constantly-restarts-after-trying-to-connect-it-to-es-url/168486
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-constantly-restarts-after-trying-to-connect-it-to-es-url/168486 "2019-02-14T20:55:40Z")
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### Author:  [@jwalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jwalls)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-constantly-restarts-after-trying-to-connect-it-to-es-url/168486/1 "2019-02-14T20:55:40Z")
I have ES set up, and cluster health looks good with 3 nodes and 2 data nodes. When I run kibana with the default localhost ES url, it displays fine. When I change the url in the yml to the my cluster, and restart, upon checking status it either says it's waiting for ES, or i get `kibana.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.`
my logs are set at the default location of stdout, but they're empty.
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-constantly-restarts-after-trying-to-connect-it-to-es-url/168486/2 "2019-02-14T22:59:59Z")
Can you share the output of `journalctl -u kibana.service`?
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### Author:  [@jwalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jwalls)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-constantly-restarts-after-trying-to-connect-it-to-es-url/168486/3 "2019-02-15T18:11:22Z")
Hi there. I realized there was some duplicate .kibana index it was trying to access. I deleted all .kibana indexes and let it recreate its own and we're all green. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-constantly-restarts-after-trying-to-connect-it-to-es-url/168486/4 "2019-03-15T18:11:22Z")
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