# Kibana not starting

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 13, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516 "2021-07-13T09:52:07Z")
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### Author: ![123451](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/e0b2c6/32.png) [@123451](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/123451)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516/1 "2021-07-13T09:52:07Z")

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Good morning all,  
My kibana is not starting, when I run the command systemctl status kibana. this is what I get.

 ![Kibana status](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/1/21aca472952ff7b696a791386f821bd73ad8a106.png)

I don't know what seems to be the issue

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### Author: ![123451](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/e0b2c6/32.png) [@123451](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/123451)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516/2 "2021-07-13T11:37:20Z")

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I can't see any errors in the jounalctl -fu kibana.service

 ![journalctl](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/2/b2ef2705c5ac089142a0e2e6f340ae9983029c0d.png)

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### Author: ![Dzmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dzmitry/32/65026_2.png) [@Dzmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dzmitry)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516/3 "2021-07-13T18:33:05Z")

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Hi @123451 ,

You probably started kibana as root from command line. Is the ownership of /var/log/kibana set to root?

Can you check similar [question](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-kibana-7-3/195365/5) and try provided solution

Regards, Dima

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### Author: ![123451](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/e0b2c6/32.png) [@123451](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/123451)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516/4 "2021-07-15T14:24:28Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to add an option to the ExecStart to allow Kibana to run as root but I keep on getting the syntax run. Please could show what the syntax is and how to add it to the ExecsStart. Also how do I get access to the /var/log/kibana file to see the permission set.

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### Author: ![Dzmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dzmitry/32/65026_2.png) [@Dzmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dzmitry)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516/5 "2021-07-15T15:02:05Z")

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Hi,

I think this [SO](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21502264/how-to-use-a-parameter-in-execstart-command-line#comment35818269_21502264) can help you with syntax, as long as you have valid script file you can start kibana this way:

`sudo systemctl start kibana.service`, but you probably know it.

> Also how do I get access to the /var/log/kibana file to see the permission set.

This question I would address to a sysadmin person who manages your infrastracture.

Regards, Dima

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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: [August 12, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting/278516/6 "2021-08-12T15:02:19Z")

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