# My kibana failed to start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 12, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548 "2018-03-12T12:54:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Phoebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Phoebe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoebe)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548/1 "2018-03-12T12:54:33Z")

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elasticsearch is going well and my head plugins also working well,But i can't enter the web of kibana ,start it give me the error msg:  
[root@localhost bin]# events.js:160  
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event  
^

Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, open '/usr/local/bin/kibana-6.1.2-linux-x86\_64/logs/'  
at Error (native)

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**Author:** ![Phoebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Phoebe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoebe)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548/2 "2018-03-12T12:59:26Z")

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i find the reason,thanks for watching;my logs's path has nothing ,should put a ,log file in it

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548/3 "2018-03-12T14:46:26Z")

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Hey @Phoebe how did you install Kibana? My guess is that the user that you're running Kibana as doesn't have permission to write to the logs folder.

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**Author:** ![Phoebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Phoebe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoebe)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548/4 "2018-03-22T11:25:57Z")

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OK，thanks for your reply

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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:** [April 19, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548/5 "2018-04-19T11:26:26Z")

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