Kibana server is not ready yet

Hello Community, I am trying to run Kibana server but I am getting this error, can anyone give me some advice?

This is my es.yml file, I want xpack.security.enabled: false remains

In my kibana.yml just uncomment 2 lines as following

  • server.host: "localhost"
  • server.ssl.enabled: false

Hello @bungearnss,

  • For elasticsearch, I can see you configured to use ssl, did you check the documentation about how to setup basic and minimal ssl configuration? Check the doc from this link
  • For Kibana, can you please post the full configuration and well formated? And provide more information such as what version are you using? is it first time you are starting your cluster? was it working before? etc. For server.host: "localhost" replace it with server.host: "0.0.0.0" so kibana will be accessible from localhost and from outside (accept all ip's)
  • For elasticsearch I try to disable ssl for a simple config but it's doesn't work, but the code that I'm attached above it's work. Could you please give me an advice for this issue ?
  • I use Kibana version 8.4.3, I've started cluster before and it can work. I didn't config anything in the kibana.yml file back then, but elasticsearch mine is not working so I modify new elasticsearch config but kibana.yml not working instead.

This is my full kibana.yml code.

For more configuration options see the configuration guide for Kibana in

Welcome to Elastic Docs | Elastic

=================== System: Kibana Server ===================

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: "localhost"

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.

Defaults to false.

#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: "your-hostname"

=================== System: Kibana Server (Optional) ===================

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

xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: false

xpack.reporting.encryptionKey: "something_secret"

xpack.security.encryptionKey: "min-32-byte-long-NEW-encryption-key"

xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey: "yw0YDjjMye4RWHkBe7l77/6yEF9z36naGwHKCtXoLuM="

=================== System: Elasticsearch ===================

The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

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: "pass"

Kibana can also authenticate to Elasticsearch via "service account tokens".

Service account tokens are Bearer style tokens that replace the traditional username/password based configuration.

Use this token instead of a username/password.

elasticsearch.serviceAccountToken: "my_token"

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

The maximum number of sockets that can be used for communications with elasticsearch.

Defaults to Infinity.

#elasticsearch.maxSockets: 1024

Specifies whether Kibana should use compression for communications with elasticsearch

Defaults to false.

#elasticsearch.compression: false

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

=================== System: Elasticsearch (Optional) ===================

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

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

=================== System: Logging ===================

Set the value of this setting to off to suppress all logging output, or to debug to log everything. Defaults to 'info'

#logging.root.level: debug

Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output.

#logging.appenders.default:

type: file

fileName: /var/logs/kibana.log

layout:

type: json

Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch.

#logging.loggers:

- name: elasticsearch.query

level: debug

Logs http responses.

#logging.loggers:

- name: http.server.response

level: debug

Logs system usage information.

#logging.loggers:

- name: metrics.ops

level: debug

=================== System: Other ===================

The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch. Defaults to data

#path.data: data

Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.

#pid.file: /run/kibana/kibana.pid

Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance

metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000ms.

#ops.interval: 5000

Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.

Supported languages are the following: English (default) "en", Chinese "zh-CN", Japanese "ja-JP", French "fr-FR".

#i18n.locale: "en"

=================== Frequently used (Optional)===================

=================== Saved Objects: Migrations ===================

Saved object migrations run at startup. If you run into migration-related issues, you might need to adjust these settings.

The number of documents migrated at a time.

If Kibana can't start up or upgrade due to an Elasticsearch circuit_breaking_exception,

use a smaller batchSize value to reduce the memory pressure. Defaults to 1000 objects per batch.

#migrations.batchSize: 1000

The maximum payload size for indexing batches of upgraded saved objects.

To avoid migrations failing due to a 413 Request Entity Too Large response from Elasticsearch.

This value should be lower than or equal to your Elasticsearch cluster’s http.max_content_length

configuration option. Default: 100mb

#migrations.maxBatchSizeBytes: 100mb

The number of times to retry temporary migration failures. Increase the setting

if migrations fail frequently with a message such as `Unable to complete the [...] step after

15 attempts, terminating`. Defaults to 15

#migrations.retryAttempts: 15

migrations.discardCorruptObjects: "8.4.3"

=================== Search Autocomplete ===================

Time in milliseconds to wait for autocomplete suggestions from Elasticsearch.

This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Defaults to 1000ms

#unifiedSearch.autocomplete.valueSuggestions.timeout: 1000

Maximum number of documents loaded by each shard to generate autocomplete suggestions.

This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Defaults to 100_000

#unifiedSearch.autocomplete.valueSuggestions.terminateAfter: 100000

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Hello @bungearnss,

From what I understood is that your cluster was already working, and for some reason elasticsearch stopped working, what was the error before if you can remember? It could be related! I suggest you to:

  • disable all ssl settings (both in kibana and elasticsearch)
  • make sure that version of kibana matches the version of elasticsearch, (if you use kibana version 8.4.3 use elasticsearch 8.4.3)
  • stop kibana
  • delete kibana saved objects using localhost:9200/.kibana*
  • in elasticsearch.yml, make sure that server.host is set to 0.0.0.0
  • in kibana.yml, make sure that server.host is set to "0.0.0.0"
  • restart elasticsearch
  • start kibana

Hello @marone

From your suggestion I have done the steps you told me. But there are some things I still don't know if I'm doing it right (sorry, I'm new to ELK stack).

  • I'm already disable all ssl setting
  • both version matched
  • kibana.yml server.host is set to 0.0.0.0 but in elasticsearch when I'm setting server host it's return unknown setting [server.host] error
  • when I try to delete kibana saved object it's return
    {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"Wildcard expressions or all indices are not allowed"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"Wildcard expressions or all indices are not allowed"},"status":400}

For more information, when i'm run elasticsearch it's work but I notice the health status is red.
Not sure if this affects server performance or not ?

This is my elasticsearch.yml

# ======================== Elasticsearch Configuration =========================
#
# NOTE: Elasticsearch comes with reasonable defaults for most settings.
#       Before you set out to tweak and tune the configuration, make sure you
#       understand what are you trying to accomplish and the consequences.
#
# The primary way of configuring a node is via this file. This template lists
# the most important settings you may want to configure for a production cluster.
#
# Please consult the documentation for further information on configuration options:
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/index.html
#
# ---------------------------------- Cluster -----------------------------------
#
# Use a descriptive name for your cluster:
#
#cluster.name: my-application
#
# ------------------------------------ Node ------------------------------------
#
# Use a descriptive name for the node:
#
#node.name: node-1
#
# Add custom attributes to the node:
#
#node.attr.rack: r1
#
# ----------------------------------- Paths ------------------------------------
#
# Path to directory where to store the data (separate multiple locations by comma):
#
#path.data: /path/to/data
#
# Path to log files:
#
#path.logs: /path/to/logs
#
# ----------------------------------- Memory -----------------------------------
#
# Lock the memory on startup:
#
#bootstrap.memory_lock: true
#
# Make sure that the heap size is set to about half the memory available
# on the system and that the owner of the process is allowed to use this
# limit.
#
# Elasticsearch performs poorly when the system is swapping the memory.
#
# ---------------------------------- Network -----------------------------------
#
# By default Elasticsearch is only accessible on localhost. Set a different
# address here to expose this node on the network:
#
#network.host: 192.168.0.1
#
# By default Elasticsearch listens for HTTP traffic on the first free port it
# finds starting at 9200. Set a specific HTTP port here:
#
#http.port: 9200
#
# For more information, consult the network module documentation.
#
# --------------------------------- Discovery ----------------------------------
#
# Pass an initial list of hosts to perform discovery when this node is started:
# The default list of hosts is ["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"]
#
# discovery.seed_hosts: ["host1", "host2"]
#
# Bootstrap the cluster using an initial set of master-eligible nodes:
#
# cluster.initial_master_nodes: ["node-1", "node-2"]
#
# For more information, consult the discovery and cluster formation module documentation.
#
# --------------------------------- Readiness ----------------------------------
#
# Enable an unauthenticated TCP readiness endpoint on localhost
#
#readiness.port: 9399
#
# ---------------------------------- Various -----------------------------------
#
# Allow wildcard deletion of indices:
#
#action.destructive_requires_name: false

#----------------------- BEGIN SECURITY AUTO CONFIGURATION -----------------------
#
# The following settings, TLS certificates, and keys have been automatically      
# generated to configure Elasticsearch security features on 25-10-2022 13:52:41
#
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ingest.geoip.downloader.enabled: false

# Enable security features
xpack.security.enabled: false

xpack.security.enrollment.enabled: true

# Enable encryption for HTTP API client connections, such as Kibana, Logstash, and Agents
xpack.security.http.ssl:
  enabled: true
  keystore.path: certs/http.p12

# Enable encryption and mutual authentication between cluster nodes
xpack.security.transport.ssl:
  enabled: true
  verification_mode: certificate
  keystore.path: certs/transport.p12
  truststore.path: certs/transport.p12
# Create a new cluster with the current node only
# Additional nodes can still join the cluster later

# cluster.initial_master_nodes: ["elastic1"]
discovery.type: single-node

cluster.name: elastic
node.name: elastic1
# network.host: 192.168.20.127
# server.host: 0.0.0.0

# Allow HTTP API connections from anywhere
# Connections are encrypted and require user authentication
http.host: 0.0.0.0


# Allow other nodes to join the cluster from anywhere
# Connections are encrypted and mutually authenticated
#transport.host: 0.0.0.0

#----------------------- END SECURITY AUTO CONFIGURATION -------------------------

This is my kibana.yml

# For more configuration options see the configuration guide for Kibana in
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html

# =================== System: Kibana Server ===================
# 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: "0.0.0.0"

# 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.
# Defaults to `false`.
#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: "http://192.168.20.127"

# 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: "your-hostname"

# =================== System: Kibana Server (Optional) ===================
# 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

xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: true
xpack.reporting.encryptionKey: "something_secret"
xpack.security.encryptionKey: "min-32-byte-long-NEW-encryption-key"
xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey: "yw0YDjjMye4RWHkBe7l77/6yEF9z36naGwHKCtXoLuM="

# =================== System: Elasticsearch ===================
# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
# elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: config/certs/client-ca.cer
# elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: certificate


# 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: "pass"

# Kibana can also authenticate to Elasticsearch via "service account tokens".
# Service account tokens are Bearer style tokens that replace the traditional username/password based configuration.
# Use this token instead of a username/password.
# elasticsearch.serviceAccountToken: "my_token"

# 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

# The maximum number of sockets that can be used for communications with elasticsearch.
# Defaults to `Infinity`.
#elasticsearch.maxSockets: 1024

# Specifies whether Kibana should use compression for communications with elasticsearch
# Defaults to `false`.
#elasticsearch.compression: false

# 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

# =================== System: Elasticsearch (Optional) ===================
# 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

# 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: none

# =================== System: Logging ===================
# Set the value of this setting to off to suppress all logging output, or to debug to log everything. Defaults to 'info'
#logging.root.level: debug

# Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
#logging.appenders.default:
#  type: file
#  fileName: /var/logs/kibana.log
#  layout:
#    type: json

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch.
#logging.loggers:
#  - name: elasticsearch.query
#    level: debug

# Logs http responses.
#logging.loggers:
#  - name: http.server.response
#    level: debug

# Logs system usage information.
#logging.loggers:
#  - name: metrics.ops
#    level: debug

# =================== System: Other ===================
# The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch. Defaults to data
#path.data: data

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

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

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.
# Supported languages are the following: English (default) "en", Chinese "zh-CN", Japanese "ja-JP", French "fr-FR".
#i18n.locale: "en"

# =================== Frequently used (Optional)===================

# =================== Saved Objects: Migrations ===================
# Saved object migrations run at startup. If you run into migration-related issues, you might need to adjust these settings.

# The number of documents migrated at a time.
# If Kibana can't start up or upgrade due to an Elasticsearch `circuit_breaking_exception`,
# use a smaller batchSize value to reduce the memory pressure. Defaults to 1000 objects per batch.
#migrations.batchSize: 1000

# The maximum payload size for indexing batches of upgraded saved objects.
# To avoid migrations failing due to a 413 Request Entity Too Large response from Elasticsearch.
# This value should be lower than or equal to your Elasticsearch cluster’s `http.max_content_length`
# configuration option. Default: 100mb
#migrations.maxBatchSizeBytes: 100mb

# The number of times to retry temporary migration failures. Increase the setting
# if migrations fail frequently with a message such as `Unable to complete the [...] step after
# 15 attempts, terminating`. Defaults to 15
#migrations.retryAttempts: 15

# migrations.discardCorruptObjects: "8.4.3"

# =================== Search Autocomplete ===================
# Time in milliseconds to wait for autocomplete suggestions from Elasticsearch.
# This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Defaults to 1000ms
#unifiedSearch.autocomplete.valueSuggestions.timeout: 1000

# Maximum number of documents loaded by each shard to generate autocomplete suggestions.
# This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Defaults to 100_000
#unifiedSearch.autocomplete.valueSuggestions.terminateAfter: 100000

after follow all steps above, elasticsearch server is working but kibana got error like this

[ERROR][savedobjects-service] [.kibana] Action failed with '[index_not_green_timeout] Timeout waiting for the status of the [.kibana_8.4.3_001] index to become 'green' Refer to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.4/resolve-migrations-failures.html#_repeated_time_out_requests_that_eventually_fail for information on how to resolve the issue.'.

Could you please give me more suggestion ?

Happy that problem with elasticsearch is resolved :slight_smile:.

For the server.host it's my bad I meant http.host and it's set.

For this error can you run this query please:

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cluster/allocation/explain" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
  "index": ".kibana_8.4.3_001",
  "shard": 0,
  "primary": true,
}
'

And before did you changed/upgraded elasticsearch version?

if it's a dev cluster and deleting all indices is not a problem for you, you can delete the content of the folder: data and restart elasticsearch

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