# Kibana fails to start with FATAL error with region.layers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails-to-start-with-fatal-error-with-region-layers/217586>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails-to-start-with-fatal-error-with-region-layers/217586 "2020-02-03T09:29:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alp01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alp01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alp01)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails-to-start-with-fatal-error-with-region-layers/217586/1 "2020-02-03T09:29:52Z")

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Hello,

I try to add a custom region map in kibana 7.4.2.

I followed the procedure which is on the site [https://www.elastic.co/fr/blog/custom-region-maps-in-kibana-6-0](https://www.elastic.co/fr/blog/custom-region-maps-in-kibana-6-0).

I have access to my file geojson with [http://localhost:8000/aus\_state.geojson](http://localhost:8000/aus_state.geojson) and i modified the file kibana.yml like that :

regionmap:  
layers:  
- name: "Australian States"  
url: "[http://localhost:8000/aus\_state.geojson](http://localhost:8000/aus_state.geojson)"  
attribution: "[https://exploratory.io/maps](https://exploratory.io/maps)"  
fields:  
- name: "STATE\_NAME"  
description: "State Name"

But when i try to start kibana, I have this fatal error :

**log [09:09:14.551] [fatal][root] { Error: "regionmap.layers" setting was not applied. Check for spelling errors and ensure that expected plugins are installed.**  
**at KbnServer.\_default (D:\ELK\kibana-7.4.2-windows-x86\_64\src\legacy\server\config\complete.js:90:17) code: 'InvalidConfig', processExitCode: 64 }**  
**log [09:09:14.555] [info][plugins-system] Stopping all plugins.**  
**log [09:09:14.556] [info][data][plugins] Stopping plugin**  
\*\*\*\* l**og [09:09:14.557] [info][plugins][tran**slations] St **opping plugin**  
**log [09:09:14.557] [info][plugins][security] Stopping plugin**

\*\*\*\* F **ATAL Error: "regionmap.layers" setting was not applied. Check for spelling errors and ensure that expected plugins are installed.**

If someone have an idea... Thanks

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails-to-start-with-fatal-error-with-region-layers/217586/2 "2020-02-03T10:11:15Z")

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This setting moved to `map.regionmap.layers`: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.4/settings.html#regionmap-settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.4/settings.html#regionmap-settings)

Just nest your settings into a top level `map` key, then it should get picked up correctly.

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**Author:** ![Alp01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alp01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alp01)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails-to-start-with-fatal-error-with-region-layers/217586/3 "2020-02-03T11:51:41Z")

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Thank you very much 🙂

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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:** [March 2, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails-to-start-with-fatal-error-with-region-layers/217586/4 "2020-03-02T11:51:48Z")

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