# Kibana login page issue

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993 "2017-09-19T08:56:47Z")
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### Author: ![abhisek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@abhisek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhisek)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/1 "2017-09-19T08:56:47Z")

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Hi ,  
I have installed X-pack on elasticsearch and kibana , and started the following service,  
but when i am trying to open kibana on my browser, the login page is not loading.

Following is the screenshot on what i'm seeing on the page.

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 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/e/0ed9eff9e3bad59c9dcf35d724d657c76e572237.PNG)

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/2 "2017-09-19T09:07:31Z")

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What is in the logs for Kibana?

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### Author: ![abhisek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@abhisek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhisek)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/3 "2017-09-19T09:22:07Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply,

my kibana logs looks like this 🙂

```
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-09-19T02:19:22Z","tags":["license","warning","xpack"],"pid":10269,"message":"License information could not be obtained from Elasticsearch. [illegal_argument_exception] No endpoint or operation is available at [_xpack] :: {\"path\":\"/_xpack\",\"statusCode\":400,\"response\":\"{\\\"error\\\":{\\\"root_cause\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"illegal_argument_exception\\\",\\\"reason\\\":\\\"No endpoint or operation is available at [_xpack]\\\"}],\\\"type\\\":\\\"illegal_argument_exception\\\",\\\"reason\\\":\\\"No endpoint or operation is available at [_xpack]\\\"},\\\"status\\\":400}\"}"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-09-19T02:19:22Z","tags":["warning"],"pid":10269,"message":"Detected an unhandled Promise rejection.\n[illegal_argument_exception] No endpoint or operation is available at [_xpack] :: {\"path\":\"/_xpack\",\"statusCode\":400,\"response\":\"{\\\"error\\\":{\\\"root_cause\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"illegal_argument_exception\\\",\\\"reason\\\":\\\"No endpoint or operation is available at [_xpack]\\\"}],\\\"type\\\":\\\"illegal_argument_exception\\\",\\\"reason\\\":\\\"No endpoint or operation is available at [_xpack]\\\"},\\\"status\\\":400}\"}"}
```

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/4 "2017-09-19T09:34:24Z")

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Do you have X-Pack installed in Elasticsearch?  
What does `_cat/plugins` report?

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### Author: ![abhisek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@abhisek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhisek)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/5 "2017-09-19T09:52:42Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> Do you have X-Pack installed in Elasticsearch?

yes

while running command :  
`curl 'http://10.1.1.150:9200/_cat/plugins' -uelastic:changeme`

gives output  
`_BVEZza x-pack 5.4.3`

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### Author: ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/6 "2017-09-19T10:06:39Z")

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What is the Elasticsearch url in you kibana.yml? It looks like you have configured Elasticsearch to listen on a non-localhost address so the default configuration of Kibana will not work as it tries to access Elasticsearch on `localhost:9200`.

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### Author: ![abhisek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@abhisek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhisek)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/7 "2017-09-19T12:46:47Z")

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Thanks for the reply colin,

> [@colings86](#):
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> Elasticsearch on localhost:9200.

I have mentioned correct `elasticsearch url` in `kibana.yml`.  
Once i restarted elasticsearch, every thing was working fine and i can see the login page.

@warkolm Currently i'm facing a new issue, as i'm trying to `logout` the session in `kibana`, it is not happening, whenever i'm trying to logout it redirects itself to the discover page in kibana.

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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: [October 17, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-login-page-issue/100993/8 "2017-10-17T12:47:58Z")

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