# Kibana not starting Invalid or unexpected token

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-invalid-or-unexpected-token/357843>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 20, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-invalid-or-unexpected-token/357843 "2024-04-20T15:44:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![aafreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aafreddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aafreddy)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-invalid-or-unexpected-token/357843/1 "2024-04-20T15:44:14Z")

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Hello,  
this is a simple one server ELK stack. After a server crash kibana is not starting.

This is the error from kibana log

```auto
[2024-04-20T17:33:03.132+02:00][DEBUG][plugins-discovery] Successfully discovered plugin "urlDrilldown" at "/usr/share/kibana/x-pack/plugins/drilldowns/url_drilldown"
[2024-04-20T17:33:03.235+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.advancedSettings] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/advanced_settings/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:03.346+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.bfetch] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/bfetch/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:09.976+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionGauge] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_gauge/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.313+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionHeatmap] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_heatmap/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.390+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionLegacyMetricVis] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_legacy_metric/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.432+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionMetricVis] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_metric/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.505+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionPartitionVis] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_partition_vis/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.518+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionTagcloud] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_tagcloud/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.687+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.expressionXY] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/chart_expressions/expression_xy/server" does not export "config".
[2024-04-20T17:33:13.706+02:00][DEBUG][plugins.charts] "/usr/share/kibana/src/plugins/charts/server" does not export "config".

 FATAL SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

```

I can authenticate using curl

```auto
curl -v -k -u elastic https://localhost:9200

```

kibana-8.7.0-1

Any suggestion will be really appreciated

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-invalid-or-unexpected-token/357843/2 "2025-01-13T12:54:45Z")

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Hi @aafreddy,

Welcome! Have you tried using the latest version? If you still have the same issue on the latest version so share your Kibana configuration as it good be a configuration issue.

Let us know!