# Kibana - Failed to launch chrome!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-failed-to-launch-chrome/238370>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-failed-to-launch-chrome/238370 "2020-06-24T04:52:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-failed-to-launch-chrome/238370/2 "2020-06-24T07:37:45Z")

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Hi  
sorry to hear, so chrome is used for generating reports, did you have a look at our reporting troubleshooting page?

> **[Reporting troubleshooting | Kibana Guide \[master\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/reporting-troubleshooting.html)**

Here's a related problem discussed

> [@Kibana reporting plugin fails to launch chrome (puppeteer)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-reporting-plugin-fails-to-launch-chrome-puppeteer/236195):
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> Hi, I'm running Kibana 7.7.1 in [docker](https://github.com/wodby/kibana) and I get the following errors in output: {"tags":["error","reporting"],"pid":1,"message":"The Reporting plugin encountered issues launching Chromium in a self-test. You may have trouble generating reports."} {"tags":["error","reporting"],"pid":1,"message":"Error: Failed to launch chrome! spawn /usr/share/kibana/data/headless\_shell-linux/headless\_shell ENOENT\n\n\nTROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.m…

If that doesn't help, I can ask people with deeper knowledge of chromium linux problems

Best,  
Matthias

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