Kibana service not running

[srcarter]

Hi there,

I recently had our IT build me a new computer that I am dedicating for a simple elasticsearch/kibana machine. I had previously built my own machine for the same purpose and was successful, that machine was running version 7.9.1-1 of both Kibana and Elasticsearch.
On this new machine I used the repo files which specify "7.x" and it's installed version 7.10.2-1 of both elasticsearch and kibana.

The installation seems to go fine but when I run
sudo service -i kibana start
I get:
[centos@kibana ~]$ sudo -i service kibana start
Starting kibana (via systemctl): [ OK ]
But then when I run:
sudo service --status-all
I see:
kibana is not running

But the service does seem to be actively running and I can reach it through the browser on the proper port.
And when I run:
[centos@kibana ~]$ sudo systemctl status kibana.service
It appears to be running:
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-02-05 21:06:28 UTC; 21min ago
Main PID: 1368 (node)
CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
└─1368 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node/usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli/dist

There is also no directory ever created for the logs (/var/logs/kibana/), but there is one for elasticsearch.
Has anyone experienced this before or have any idea what's going on exactly?
Thank you!

[Marius_Dragomir]

Did you build the packages yourself from source? Since 7.10.2 is released I would suggest just using the artifacts available here: Kibana 7.10.2 | Elastic

[srcarter]

I installed the packages using repo files and instructions from these webpages:

Install Elasticsearch with RPM | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic

Install Kibana with RPM | Kibana Guide [8.11] | Elastic

I had some of my IT coworkers take a look at the issue and they've said there was:

The issue with the lack of logging in /var/log/kibana & service --status-all saying kibana wasn't running was due to a collision between systemd & sysV where a pid file was not being produced.

And that,

Multiple scripts were stepping on each other with regard to the pid file.

This wasn't an issue in 7.9 because etc/init.d/kibana changed between versions.

They were able to comment out some lines in etc/init.d/kibana and remove the systemd files/functionality for kibana & elasticsearch, so now it works with service, properly shows it's running with service --status-all and produces log files in /var/log/kibana like it should.