Kibana not running as service but systemctl showing as active

[siranjeevi (Siranjeevi V)]

Hi,

I am using Kibana V5.4 on RHEL 7. When I do "systemctl status kibana.service" it is showing active but not on "service kibana status".

Also please let me know do I want to run kibana as root or normal is user is fine.

[user@fluentd ~]$ sudo service kibana status
kibana is not running
[user@fluentd ~]$ sudo systemctl status kibana.service
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-12-12 12:59:43 EST; 27min ago
Main PID: 676 (node)
CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
└─676 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node --no-warnings /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

Dec 12 13:17:02 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:17:02Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:18:05 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:18:05Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:19:08 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:19:08Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:20:11 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:20:11Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:21:14 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:21:14Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:22:17 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:22:17Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:23:20 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:23:20Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:24:23 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:24:23Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:25:26 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:25:26Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
Dec 12 13:26:29 fluentd.virsec.local kibana[676]: {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-12-12T18:26:29Z","tags":[],"pid":676,"method":"post","status.../plain,
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[virsec@fluentd ~]$

Thanks,
Siranjeevi

[Brandon_Kobel]

Hey @siranjeevi when you installed Kibana, it was only installed as a systemd service so you'll only see it running with systemctl. It's recommended to run Kibana as the dedicated kibana user, and this is enabled by default if you installed Kibana with yum install kibana by /etc/systemd/system/kibana.service