I have installed Kibana as shown here. Installation was successful and so I began to configure it as shown here by setting the following...
server.port: 5601
server.host: "localhost"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
I did not use the key elasticsearch.url because it has been deprecated. Upon this I have also turned on logging as such...
logging.dest: "/home/syost/kibanalog.txt"
logging.silent: false
logging.quiet: false
logging.verbose: true
After this I have started the service as such...
sudo systemctl start kibana
After I have started the service I keep polling for the status via...
sudo systemctl status kibana
Polling four times approximately 2 seconds apart results in...
[/etc] > sudo systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-04-19 19:59:41 MDT; 4s ago
Main PID: 5833 (node)
CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
└─5833 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
Apr 19 19:59:41 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Started Kibana.
Apr 19 19:59:41 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Starting Kibana...
[/etc] > sudo systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-04-19 19:59:45 MDT; 2s ago
Process: 5833 ExecStart=/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 5833 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Apr 19 19:59:45 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: kibana.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 19 19:59:45 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Unit kibana.service entered failed state.
Apr 19 19:59:45 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: kibana.service failed.
[/etc] > sudo systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-04-19 19:59:48 MDT; 3s ago
Main PID: 5864 (node)
CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
└─5864 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
Apr 19 19:59:48 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Started Kibana.
Apr 19 19:59:48 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Starting Kibana...
[/etc] > sudo systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Sun 2020-04-19 19:59:56 MDT; 2s ago
Process: 5864 ExecStart=/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 5864 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Apr 19 19:59:53 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: kibana.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 19 19:59:53 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Unit kibana.service entered failed state.
Apr 19 19:59:53 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: kibana.service failed.
Apr 19 19:59:56 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: kibana.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 19 19:59:56 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for kibana.service
Apr 19 19:59:56 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Failed to start Kibana.
Apr 19 19:59:56 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: Unit kibana.service entered failed state.
Apr 19 19:59:56 a-s6bac55wo88z systemd[1]: kibana.service failed.
Logging never appears in /home/syost/kibanalog.txt and so I have nothing to go off of in determining why systemctl failed to start kibana service.
I'm pasting in my entire config file should you see something I don't...
# 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.
# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will
# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.
#server.rewriteBasePath: false
# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.
#server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576
# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.
#server.name: "your-hostname"
# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
# When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host
# setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host
# that connects to this Kibana instance.
#elasticsearch.preserveHost: true
# 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"
#elasticsearch.password: "pass"
# 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
# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.
#elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000
# 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: /var/run/kibana.pid
# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
logging.dest: "/home/syost/kibanalog.txt"
# 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: true
# 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"
