# Kibana not starting up after enabling https (Single node) , seems to be missing credentials?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 6, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659 "2021-08-06T15:07:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Shreesh\_Narayanan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shreesh_Narayanan)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659/1 "2021-08-06T15:07:06Z")
Hello,
I'm using Kibana 7.14 and had enabled https recently . All the services logstash and elasticsearch start up successfully while kibana fails . I had been looking at the kibana logs and they show this
```auto
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-08-06T13:48:17+00:00","tags":["info","savedobjects-service"],"pid":13086,"message":"Waiting until all Elasticsearch nodes are compatible with Kibana before starting saved objects migrations..."}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-08-06T13:48:17+00:00","tags":["error","savedobjects-service"],"pid":13086,"message":"Unable to retrieve version information from Elasticsearch nodes. Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: IP: 172.26.207.165 is not in the cert's list: "}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-08-06T14:03:50+00:00","tags":["info","plugins-system"],"pid":13086,"message":"Stopping all plugins."}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-08-06T14:03:50+00:00","tags":["info","plugins","monitoring","monitoring","kibana-monitoring"],"pid":13086,"message":"Monitoring stats collection is stopped"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-08-06T14:04:20+00:00","tags":["warning","plugins-system"],"pid":13086,"message":"\"eventLog\" plugin didn't stop in 30sec., move on to the next."}
```
here's my kibana config :
```auto
server.port: 5601
server.host: "172.26.207.165"
server.publicBaseUrl: "https://kibana.dev.com:5601"
server.name: "kibana-dev01"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["https://172.26.207.165:9200"]
server.ssl.enabled: true
server.ssl.certificate: /etc/kibana/certs/nexus-dev01.crt
server.ssl.key: /etc/kibana/certs/nexus-dev01.key
elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/etc/kibana/certs/elasticsearch-ca.pem"]
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: certificate
logging.dest: /app/ELK-Logs/kibana/
logging.verbose: true
path.data: /app/kibana_data
```
I tried restarting the service now after increasing the verbosity in kibana.yml
```auto
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-08-06T15:03:59+00:00","tags":["debug","elasticsearch","query","data"],"pid":4832,"message":"401\nGET /_nodes?filter_path=nodes.*.version%2Cnodes.*.http.publish_address%2Cnodes.*.ip [security_exception]: missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_nodes?filter_path=nodes.*.version%2Cnodes.*.http.publish_address%2Cnodes.*.ip]"}
{
```
Where should i mention these credentials in elasticsearch.yml or kibana.yml ? hopefully not in plain text?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659/2 "2021-08-06T15:18:11Z")
You will use these settings
`elasticsearch.username:`
`elasticsearch.password:`
And secure them using the Keystore
> **[Secure settings | Kibana Guide \[7.14\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/secure-settings.html#add-string-to-keystore)**
They will be picked up automatically from the keystore on startup.
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### Author:  [@Shreesh\_Narayanan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shreesh_Narayanan)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659/3 "2021-08-06T15:24:33Z")
awesome 🙂 it worked.
One more question, can we still use the port 5601 after enabling https?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659/4 "2021-08-06T15:34:44Z")
Yup! You can change the port if you like but no need to.
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### Author:  [@Shreesh\_Narayanan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shreesh_Narayanan)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659/5 "2021-08-06T15:48:32Z")
Thanks a lot . it works splendidly 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-up-after-enabling-https-single-node-seems-to-be-missing-credentials/280659/6 "2021-09-03T15:48:49Z")
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