# Kibana error - module.js:478 cannot find module Babel-register

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409 "2020-05-26T19:46:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grace\_Rashmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Grace\_Rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Grace_Rashmi)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409/1 "2020-05-26T19:46:47Z")

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Hi All,

Iam new to ELK kindly help to resolve this issue

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**Author:** ![myasonik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/myasonik/32/62369_2.png) [@myasonik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/myasonik)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409/2 "2020-05-26T20:10:04Z")

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Hi @Grace_Rashmi!

Could you provide some more details? When are you running into this issue?

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**Author:** ![Grace\_Rashmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Grace\_Rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Grace_Rashmi)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409/3 "2020-05-26T20:20:08Z")

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I just executed elasticsearch.bat post that i am running kibana.bat in different command prompt in respective folder i am getting error

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**Author:** ![myasonik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/myasonik/32/62369_2.png) [@myasonik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/myasonik)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409/4 "2020-05-26T23:00:00Z")

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Looking at [this previous thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-module-babel-register/137016/2), looks like there are a few things you can try:

- Is there an `optimize` directory next to the `bin` folder? If there is, you could try and delete it and see if Kibana will start then.
- If not that, something might have gone wrong during download/unzip. Could you try deleting it and redownloading?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-error-module-js-478-cannot-find-module-babel-register/234409/5 "2020-06-23T23:12:52Z")

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