# Kibana service failing after 5 second after start **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 18, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289 "2019-12-18T09:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![suraj005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@suraj005](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suraj005)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289/1 "2019-12-18T09:14:06Z")
Hello guys, I am very new to this kibana. I configured it with official docs. my all services are running and kibana is failing but there is no log directory of kibana generated so I can proceed further. I am stuck now. Any suggestions. Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![peoh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peoh/32/35696_2.png) [@peoh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/peoh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289/2 "2019-12-18T09:53:34Z")
On linux? Try this: > journalctl -u kibana ---
**Author:** ![suraj005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@suraj005](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suraj005)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289/3 "2019-12-18T10:09:51Z")
@peoh Itried this one and got following output Dec 16 12:03:56 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:56Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:03:56 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:56Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:03:56 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:56Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:03:58 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:58Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:03:58 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:58Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:03:58 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:58Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:03:58 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:33:58Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:01 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:01Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:01 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:01Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:01 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:01Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:01 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:01Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:03 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:03Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:03 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:03Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:03 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:03Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:03 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:03Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:06 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:06Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":10265,"message" Dec 16 12:04:06 TALogServer kibana[10265]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-12-16T06:34:06Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1026 ---
**Author:** ![peoh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peoh/32/35696_2.png) [@peoh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/peoh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289/4 "2019-12-18T10:28:55Z")
Did you copy and paste from a terminal? Looks like you cut out the message. Pipe to a file and open it in a texteditor: > journalctl -u kibana \> /tmp/kibanalog.txt Download it to your computer with WinSCP. ---
**Author:** ![rameshkr1994](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rameshkr1994/32/59029_2.png) [@rameshkr1994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rameshkr1994)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289/5 "2019-12-18T11:27:02Z")
Hi @suraj005. still facing the same issue? > if `yes`Please update here your config file kibana.yml here! Thanks HadoopHelp ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-failing-after-5-second-after-start/212289/6 "2020-01-15T11:27:08Z")
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