# Kibana development server up and running, but not picking up changes **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** kibana-plugin-development\ **Created:** [January 16, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253 "2023-01-16T13:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mpjjonker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mpjjonker/32/95796_2.png) [@mpjjonker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mpjjonker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/1 "2023-01-16T13:26:13Z")
Hi, I have followed the instructions to setup a development environment for plugin development. I also do see the first attempt (created by the create-plugin-script), but when I make a change to any of the files (public, server or common) the server does not pick them up. Only when I manually stop en start (`yarn start`) the changes are reflected. ```auto $ node scripts/kibana --dev --run-examples Marking config path as handled: dev Marking config path as handled: plugins Marking config path as handled: server no-base-path ==================================================================================================== no-base-path Running Kibana in dev mode with --no-base-path disables several useful features and is not recommended no-base-path ==================================================================================================== watching for changes (16221 files) restarting server due to changes in "x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/lib/detection_engine/rule_monitoring/logic/rule_execution_log/event_log/get_execution_event_aggregation" restarting server due to changes in - "x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/lib/detection_engine/rule_monitoring/logic/rule_execution_log/event_log/get_execution_event_aggregation/index.ts" - "x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/lib/detection_engine/rule_monitoring/logic/rule_execution_log/event_log/get_execution_event_aggregation/types.ts" np bld log [13:34:30.932] [info][@kbn/optimizer] initialized, 187 bundles cached np bld log [13:40:34.162] [info][@kbn/optimizer] starting worker [1 bundle] [2023-01-16T13:38:21.927+01:00][INFO][node] Kibana process configured with roles: [background_tasks, ui] np bld log [13:41:45.647] [success][@kbn/optimizer] 1 bundles compiled successfully after 710.8 sec, watching for changes [2023-01-16T14:02:06.992+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "prebootExample" is disabled. [2023-01-16T14:02:07.021+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "cloudChat" is disabled. [2023-01-16T14:02:07.022+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "cloudExperiments" is disabled. [2023-01-16T14:02:07.022+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "cloudFullStory" is disabled. [2023-01-16T14:02:07.023+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "cloudGainsight" is disabled. [2023-01-16T14:02:07.031+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "profiling" is disabled. [2023-01-16T14:02:07.126+01:00][INFO][http.server.Preboot] http server running at http://localhost:5601 [2023-01-16T14:02:07.310+01:00][INFO][plugins-system.preboot] Setting up [1] plugins: [interactiveSetup] [2023-01-16T14:02:07.373+01:00][WARN][config.deprecation] The default mechanism for Reporting privileges will work differently in future versions, which will affect the behavior of this cluster. Set "xpack.reporting.roles.enabled" to "false" to adopt the future behavior before upgrading. [2023-01-16T14:02:08.368+01:00][INFO][plugins-system.standard] Setting up [142] plugins: [translations,monitoringCollection,licensing,globalSearch,globalSearchProviders,features,mapsEms,licenseApiGuard,customBranding,usageCollection,taskManager,cloud,guidedOnboarding,telemetryCollectionManager,telemetryCollectionXpack,kibanaUsageCollection,share,screenshotMode,banners,newsfeed,fieldFormats,expressions,screenshotting,dataViews,embeddable,uiActionsEnhanced,charts,esUiShared,customIntegrations,home,searchprofiler,painlessLab,grokdebugger,management,cloudDataMigration,advancedSettings,spaces,security,snapshotRestore,lists,encryptedSavedObjects,telemetry,licenseManagement,files,eventLog,actions,notifications,console,bfetch,data,watcher,reporting,fileUpload,ingestPipelines,alerting,unifiedSearch,myFirstHighLighterPlugin,unifiedFieldList,savedSearch,savedObjects,graph,savedObjectsTagging,savedObjectsManagement,presentationUtil,expressionShape,expressionRevealImage,expressionRepeatImage,expressionMetric,expressionImage,controls,eventAnnotation,dataViewFieldEditor,triggersActionsUi,transform,stackConnectors,stackAlerts,ruleRegistry,visualizations,canvas,visTypeXy,visTypeVislib,visTypeVega,visTypeTimeseries,visTypeTimelion,visTypeTagcloud,visTypeTable,visTypeMetric,visTypeHeatmap,visTypeMarkdown,dashboard,dashboardEnhanced,embeddableExamples,expressionXY,expressionTagcloud,expressionPartitionVis,visTypePie,expressionMetricVis,expressionLegacyMetricVis,expressionHeatmap,expressionGauge,lens,maps,cases,timelines,sessionView,kubernetesSecurity,threatIntelligence,aiops,discover,observability,fleet,osquery,indexManagement,rollup,remoteClusters,crossClusterReplication,indexLifecycleManagement,cloudSecurityPosture,discoverEnhanced,dataVisualizer,ml,synthetics,securitySolution,infra,upgradeAssistant,monitoring,logstash,enterpriseSearch,apm,visTypeGauge,dataViewManagement,thirdPartyVisLensExample,screenshottingExample,alertingExample,userProfileExamples,searchExamples,screenshotModeExample,routingExample,responseStream,filesExample,fieldFormatsExample,bfetchExplorer] ``` ---
**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/2 "2023-01-16T13:30:30Z")
Hi @mpjjonker just to clarify are your changes on the `common`/`server` side of your plugin, or in the `public` folder instead? As for the former folders a server restart is required, but for the latter only a client side rebuild is done and you see only a line like this one: ```auto np bld log [...] [success][@kbn/optimizer] N bundles compiled successfully after xxx.x sec, watching for changes ``` When changing a file content in a `server`/`common` folder will instead show something like this: ```auto restarting server due to changes ... ``` ---
**Author:** ![mpjjonker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mpjjonker/32/95796_2.png) [@mpjjonker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mpjjonker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/3 "2023-01-16T13:42:48Z")
Hi @Marco_Liberati , I have changed files in all locations. Nothing is being picked up. the only time I see a `watching for changes` message is : ```auto watching for changes (16220 files) restarting server due to changes in "x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/lib/detection_engine/rule_monitoring/logic/rule_execution_log/event_log/get_execution_event_aggregation" restarting server due to changes in - "x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/lib/detection_engine/rule_monitoring/logic/rule_execution_log/event_log/get_execution_event_aggregation/types.ts" - "x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/lib/detection_engine/rule_monitoring/logic/rule_execution_log/event_log/get_execution_event_aggregation/index.ts" ``` And it takes more than 10 minutes on my system before the servers takes a new request on `http://localhost:5601/` In running this in WSL (Ubuntu) on Windows 11 ---
**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/4 "2023-01-16T13:45:40Z")
The `watching for changes` message should appear only once at startup. The two messages to look for are: - `N bundles compiled successfully ...` for client side changes ( anything in a `public` folder) - `restarting server due to changes ...` for server side changes ( anything in a `server` or `common` folder) ---
**Author:** ![mpjjonker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mpjjonker/32/95796_2.png) [@mpjjonker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mpjjonker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/5 "2023-01-16T14:08:07Z")
Ok thanks , this is in my logs (while I still can not get a response) ```auto np bld log [14:40:33.727] [info][@kbn/optimizer] initialized, 187 bundles cached np bld log [14:46:31.463] [info][@kbn/optimizer] starting worker [1 bundle] [2023-01-16T14:44:22.965+01:00][INFO][node] Kibana process configured with roles: [background_tasks, ui] np bld log [14:47:33.778] [success][@kbn/optimizer] 1 bundles compiled successfully after 673.1 sec, watching for changes ``` notice the time difference (20 minutes !), maybe this WSL setup is not the best configuration for this type of development ? I must be doing something wrong ```auto np bld log [14:47:33.778] [success][@kbn/optimizer] 1 bundles compiled successfully after 673.1 sec, watching for changes [2023-01-16T15:07:08.261+01:00][INFO][plugins-service] Plugin "prebootExample" is disabled. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/6 "2023-01-16T14:09:38Z")
What version of the stack are you using? Older versions used to have a long time for bundling, while last two major versions are way faster. ---
**Author:** ![mpjjonker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mpjjonker/32/95796_2.png) [@mpjjonker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mpjjonker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/7 "2023-01-16T14:17:20Z")
8.7.0 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-development-server-up-and-running-but-not-picking-up-changes/323253/8 "2023-02-13T14:17:24Z")
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