Hi guys, I'm trying to install the ELK stack on a Windows machine. I followed the official instructions, and installing Elasticsearch as a service proceeded without a hitch, I got the password for the elastic account. The problem started with Kibana. I followed the instructions here: Install Kiban…

Hi Carly, Thank you for your post; I followed this suggestion in the post and my ELK stack is working now! It feels rather counter-intuitive that I have to start the application without using admin rights command prompt, but oh well. Again, thank you very much for your suggestion.

[new user] Unable to start Kibana

Elastic Stack Kibana

carly.richmond (Carly Richmond) November 21, 2023, 10:08am 2

Hi @Amry,

Welcome to the community! It looks like an invalid credentials issue. Can you try resettings the enrolment token as per this topic?

Otherwise I would recommend troubleshooting using some of the ideas in this post.

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[new user] Unable to start Kibana

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