# Kibana service failed to start **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334 "2022-02-04T18:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gabal007](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabal007/32/101392_2.png) [@gabal007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabal007)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/1 "2022-02-04T18:16:34Z")
Hi all, I hope that message finds you well. I have installed elk version 7.17 on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009. I've tried to install kibana as a service, and it's failing to start. Based on what I'm reading on other threads, it seems it's because I've started the service as root. I'd appreciate some help on how to fix this please. ```auto [root@BNH-ELK-LOG yum.repos.d]# sudo systemctl status kibana.service ● kibana.service - Kibana Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2022-02-04 12:09:36 EST; 6min ago Docs: https://www.elastic.co Main PID: 25452 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Feb 04 12:09:33 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: kibana.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Feb 04 12:09:33 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: Unit kibana.service entered failed state. Feb 04 12:09:33 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: kibana.service failed. Feb 04 12:09:36 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: kibana.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Feb 04 12:09:36 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: Stopped Kibana. Feb 04 12:09:36 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for kibana.service Feb 04 12:09:36 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Kibana. Feb 04 12:09:36 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: Unit kibana.service entered failed state. Feb 04 12:09:36 BNH-ELK-LOG.binuh.dpko.un.org systemd[1]: kibana.service failed. ``` ---
**Author:** ![gabal007](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabal007/32/101392_2.png) [@gabal007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabal007)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/2 "2022-02-21T17:28:45Z")
@jbudz I hope you don't mind me tagging you on this. You provided some very useful help on the thread below: [Kibana Service Failed to start - #13 by jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/191702/13) I was hoping you could give me some feedback on how to fix my issue 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/3 "2022-02-22T16:26:50Z")
Hey, Can you share any error logs in `/var/log/kibana/kibana.log`? ---
**Author:** ![gabal007](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabal007/32/101392_2.png) [@gabal007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabal007)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/4 "2022-02-22T16:48:36Z")
Thank yo u for the quick reply. Let me know if you need anything else. ```auto [netadmin@BNH-ELK-LOG ~]$ sudo cat /var/log/kibana/kibana.log [sudo] password for netadmin: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2022-02-04T12:17:01-05:00","tags":["info","plugins-service"],"pid":27647,"message":"Plugin \"metricsEntities\" is disabled."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2022-02-04T12:18:21-05:00","tags":["info","plugins-service"],"pid":28069,"message":"Plugin \"metricsEntities\" is disabled."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2022-02-04T12:41:26-05:00","tags":["info","plugins-service"],"pid":1334,"message":"Plugin \"metricsEntities\" is disabled."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2022-02-21T12:18:24-05:00","tags":["info","plugins-service"],"pid":14830,"message":"Plugin \"metricsEntities\" is disabled."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2022-02-22T11:46:27-05:00","tags":["info","plugins-service"],"pid":13557,"message":"Plugin \"metricsEntities\" is disabled."} [netadmin@BNH-ELK-LOG ~]$ ``` ---
**Author:** ![gabal007](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabal007/32/101392_2.png) [@gabal007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabal007)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/5 "2022-03-03T13:15:04Z")
@jbudz what are your thoughts? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gabal007](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabal007/32/101392_2.png) [@gabal007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabal007)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/6 "2022-03-18T13:58:25Z")
ok, so here's what I've tried so far: in kibana.yml: server.port: 5601 server.host: "0.0.0.0" I changed the Elasticsearch username and pwd to the following: Elasticsearch.username: "elastic" Elasticsearch.password: "changeme" I activated the following firewall ports: sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=9200/tcp sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=5601/tcp sudo firewall-cmd --reload Not much has changed so far. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failed-to-start/296334/7 "2022-04-15T13:59:16Z")
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