# Kibana index failing during startup **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 7, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-failing-during-startup/77594 "2017-03-07T03:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ggp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@ggp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ggp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-failing-during-startup/77594/1 "2017-03-07T03:53:01Z")
i am seeing kibana index failing during startup in my kibana.yml file i have > kibana.index: "support.kibana" here is the log from kibana, > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:50Z","tags":["status","plugin:kibana@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:50Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:50Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack\_main@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:50Z","tags":["status","plugin:searchprofiler@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:50Z","tags":["status","plugin:tilemap@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:51Z","tags":["status","plugin:console@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:51Z","tags":["status","plugin:timelion@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:51Z","tags":["listening","info"],"pid":11904,"message":"Server running at [http://ipselsprd01:5601](http://ipselsprd01:5601)"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:51Z","tags":["status","ui settings","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Elasticsearch plugin is yellow","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:55Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack\_main@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from yellow to yellow - No existing Kibana index found","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:55Z","tags":["status","plugin:searchprofiler@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from yellow to yellow - No existing Kibana index found","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:55Z","tags":["status","plugin:tilemap@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from yellow to yellow - No existing Kibana index found","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:39:55Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.2.0","info"],"pid":11904,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from yellow to yellow - No existing Kibana index found","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:26Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack\_main@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana"","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"No existing Kibana index found"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:26Z","tags":["status","plugin:searchprofiler@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana"","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"No existing Kibana index found"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:26Z","tags":["status","plugin:tilemap@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana"","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"No existing Kibana index found"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:26Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana"","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"No existing Kibana index found"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:26Z","tags":["status","ui settings","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Elasticsearch plugin is yellow"} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:28Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack\_main@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - [search\_phase\_execution\_exception] all shards failed","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana""} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:28Z","tags":["status","plugin:searchprofiler@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - [search\_phase\_execution\_exception] all shards failed","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana""} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:28Z","tags":["status","plugin:tilemap@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - [search\_phase\_execution\_exception] all shards failed","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana""} > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-03-07T03:40:28Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.2.0","error"],"pid":11904,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from red to red - [search\_phase\_execution\_exception] all shards failed","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Unable to create Kibana index "support.kibana""} because of this i see in below exception ES log > [r.suppressed] path: / **support.kibana** /config/\_search, params: {index=support.kibana, type=config} > org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: all shards failed > [master01] All shards failed for phase: [query\_fetch] > org.elasticsearch.action.NoShardAvailableActionException: null can someone help me out here as i am really struck with this from last couple of days , i have similar settings in other environments and don't see above issues, i am using ES and Kibana 5.2.0 ---
**Author:** ![jkuang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jkuang/32/72637_2.png) [@jkuang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkuang)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-failing-during-startup/77594/2 "2017-03-09T01:23:52Z")
It looks like you have X-pack installed. After doing so did you update the ```auto elasticsearch.username: "user" elasticsearch.password: "pass" ``` in the kibana.yaml ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-failing-during-startup/77594/3 "2017-04-06T01:23:55Z")
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