# Kibana - Marvel waiting for Elasticsearch indefinitely

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 30, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937 "2016-09-30T15:35:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![misomij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/misomij/32/10700_2.png) [@misomij](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misomij)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937/1 "2016-09-30T15:35:38Z")

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Hi all,

I have just installed Elasticsearch and Kibana with some plugins.  
Between these I have installed Marvel.  
No problem during installation, but when i run Kibana i get Yellow status page and this message

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/71bddfb348cbcfdc95fd582c0f737b3d26dea389.PNG)

And Kibana won't start, no matter how much I wait.  
If i try to remove Marvel from Kibana, it starts without problems.

Only one Marvel related info in Kibana logs:  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-09-30T15:15:52Z","tags":["status","plugin:marvel@2.4.1","info"],"pid":13263,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uniniti alized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}

However, Marvel-agent is collecting data:

health status index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size  
green open .marvel-es-data-1 1 0 3 1 8.4kb 8.4kb  
green open .kibana 1 0 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb  
green open .marvel-es-1-2016.09.30 1 0 4762 18 2.1mb 2.1mb

Info:

- OS: CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
- ES: 2.4.1
- Kibana: 4.6.1

Any help is appreciated 😉  
Thanks  
Miso

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937/2 "2016-10-11T21:41:07Z")

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The Marvel UI plugin is just waiting for the Elasticsearch plugin to turn green.

In your screenshot, you only show the status of the Marvel plugin. Is the "Elasticsearch" plugin green and say "Kibana index ready"?

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**Author:** ![misomij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/misomij/32/10700_2.png) [@misomij](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misomij)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937/3 "2016-10-12T10:11:45Z")

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Yes Elasticsearch plugin is green.  
Here is a screen of the status page, hope you can see well:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/c/c224888b53ecc39aa8911c473eb4b4681044a969.PNG)

thanks

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937/4 "2016-10-13T21:23:48Z")

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Looks like you have a number of other plugins installed. Does Marvel work if it is the only plugin?

Do you see any errors in the Kibana server logs?

Can you share your `kibana.yml`?

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**Author:** ![misomij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/misomij/32/10700_2.png) [@misomij](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misomij)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937/5 "2016-10-25T10:14:46Z")

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I reinstalled all plugins one by one, starting with Marvel, checking every time if Kibana was working after the restart.

If I install the Sankey diagram visualization plugin I get the issue:

> **[chenryn/kbn\_sankey\_vis](https://github.com/chenryn/kbn_sankey_vis)**
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> kbn\_sankey\_vis - Sankey diagram for Kibana visualize.

I could not think of a visualization problem since in the status page the only yellow plugin was Marvel.

Now Kibana is working with Marvel and all other plugins.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-marvel-waiting-for-elasticsearch-indefinitely/61937/6 "2017-07-06T13:35:46Z")

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