# Kibana.yml configure error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-configure-error/288172>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 1, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-configure-error/288172 "2021-11-01T20:23:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tingda\_Du](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tingda_du/32/96433_2.png) [@Tingda\_Du](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tingda_Du)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-configure-error/288172/1 "2021-11-01T20:23:04Z")

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in kibana.yml I have that

```auto
logging.root.level: error

```

But I got the error of

```auto
Configuring logger failed: { ValidationError: child "logging" fails because ["root" is not allowed]
    at Object.exports.process (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/joi/lib/errors.js:196:19)
    at internals.Object._validateWithOptions (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/joi/lib/types/any/index.js:675:31)
    at module.exports.internals.Any.root.validate (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/joi/lib/index.js:146:23)
    at Config._commit (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:132:34)
    at Config.set (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:102:10)
    at Config.extendSchema (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:74:10)
    at _lodash.default.each.child (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:63:14)
    at arrayEach (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/lodash/index.js:1315:13)
    at Function.<anonymous> (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/lodash/index.js:3393:13)
    at Config.extendSchema (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:62:30) name: 'ValidationError' }

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**Author:** ![majagrubic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/majagrubic/32/74459_2.png) [@majagrubic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/majagrubic)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-configure-error/288172/2 "2021-11-02T10:07:12Z")

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How are you starting kibana? Can you post a bit more of the console output before the error occurs?

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**Author:** ![Rios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rios/32/95745_2.png) [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-configure-error/288172/3 "2021-11-02T11:00:52Z")

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You are trying to start Kibana as root user or port number is not OK. Use kibana default user or for root user use ports below 1024 and above 1024 for non-root users.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-configure-error/288172/4 "2021-11-30T11:01:46Z")

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