Kibana server is not ready yet kibana.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Sorry if this post is repetitive, I did look for this issue and did not see an answer that worked for me. I realize this could turn out to be something fairly simple or even an OSI level 8 error.

I can't imaging that I am the first one to experience this issue trying to set up Kibana. For the record I did try at least one suggestion form a similar topic and it did not seem to work for me or resolve my issue.

I'm getting this error:

Opening this on the host machine: 192 . 168 . 1 . 125 : 5601/ results in this error message:
Kibana server is not ready yet

Kibana us running in Ubuntu 18.04 on a VM on Virtual Box on the host machine.

Could this be as simple as not having a kibana log destination file in kabana.yml? I thought I had tried that but somehow it seems to have reverted to before I added it in per another post I saw here. Also wondering it it could be because of file permissions that may need to also be adjusted that kibana can't run because it can't reach a core file and so it stops?

I can't really tell for sure which version of kibana is installed because lo c a l h o s t :9200 returns an empty response (is there another way to tell?)

Upon checking the status of Kibana as follows: systemctl status kibana shows this:

root@elk:/etc/kibana# systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-07-19 18:56:17 UTC; 4h 46min ago
     Docs: https://www.elastic.co
 Main PID: 25825 (node)
    Tasks: 11 (limit: 4653)
   CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
           └─25825 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli/dist --logging.dest=/var/log/kibana/kibana.log --pid.file=/run/kibana/kibana.pid --deprecation.skip_deprecated_settings[0]=logging.dest

Jul 19 18:56:17 elk systemd[1]: kibana.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 19 18:56:17 elk systemd[1]: kibana.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 19 18:56:17 elk systemd[1]: Stopped Kibana.
Jul 19 18:56:17 elk systemd[1]: Started Kibana.

Here is the content of my kibana.yml file.

# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.
# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
server.host: "192(.)168(.)1(.)125"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.
# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath
# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.
# This setting cannot end in a slash.
#server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with
# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.
# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will
# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.
#server.rewriteBasePath: false

# Specifies the public URL at which Kibana is available for end users. If
# `server.basePath` is configured this URL should end with the same basePath.
#server.publicBaseUrl: ""

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.
#server.maxPayload: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name.  This is used for display purposes.
server.name: "home-lab"

# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
#elasticsearch.hosts: ["(http): (//) (localhost:9200)"]

# Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and
# dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.
#kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.
#kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

# If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide
# the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana
# index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which
# is proxied through the Kibana server.
elasticsearch.username: "kibana_system"
elasticsearch.password: "obfuscated"

# Kibana can also authenticate to Elasticsearch via "service account tokens".
# If may use this token instead of a username/password.
# elasticsearch.serviceAccountToken: "my_token"

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.
# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.
#server.ssl.enabled: false
#server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt
#server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.
# These files are used to verify the identity of Kibana to Elasticsearch and are required when
# xpack.security.http.ssl.client_authentication in Elasticsearch is set to required.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt
#elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate
# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: [ "/path/to/your/CA.pem" ]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
#elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of
# the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.
#elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value
# must be a positive integer.
#elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send *no* client-side
# headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).
#elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [ authorization ]

# Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten
# by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.
#elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.
#elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 30000

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true.
#elasticsearch.logQueries: false

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.
#pid.file: /run/kibana/kibana.pid

# Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
#logging.dest: stdout

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.
#logging.silent: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.
#logging.quiet: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information
# and all requests.
#logging.verbose: false

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance
# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.
#ops.interval: 5000

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.
# Supported languages are the following: English - en , by default , Chinese - zh-CN .
#i18n.locale: "en"
#
server.ssl.enabled: true
server.ssl.certificate: "/etc/kibana/certs/kibana.crt"
server.ssl.key: "/etc/kibana/certs/kibana.key"


elasticsearch.hosts: ["https://192.168.1.150:9200"]
elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/etc/kibana/certs/ca/ca.crt"]
elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: "/etc/kibana/certs/kibana.crt"
elasticsearch.ssl.key: "/etc/kibana/certs/kibana.key"

server.publicBaseUrl: "https://192.168.1.150:5601"

xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.session.idleTimeout: "30m"
xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey: "SomeReallyReallyLongEncryptionKey"

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Is there another file I need to check something in or post on this thread? Any assistance is appreciate. This is my first post so please go easy on my while I learn to overcome any noob mistakes I may make while learning to post appropriately in forums.

TIA

Kibana 6.3 is EOL and no longer supported. Please upgrade ASAP.

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I found that the version number according to the installer is 7.17.11

Also, I found this on Stack Overflow and now Kibana appears to run with no errors but it hasn't loaded in my browser yet.

I experienced the same issue as mentioned above when tried ($sudo systemctl start kibana.service) to start Kibana. Issue: Failed to start Kibana using systemctl, but works fine through bin file. Resolution: /etc/systemd/system/kibana.service file was trying to start kibana using the User=kibana Group=kibana where either of them exists. This is resolved after creating the kibana user, kibana group and restarting kibana. `$useradd kibana
$groupadd kibana
$usermod -a -G kibana kibana` Hope this helps.

After I fixed another little issue I found, (nothing like a typo to frustrate you, right?) I'm happy to report that this is resolved and now working.

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