# No X-pack settings in Kibana.yml even when the plugin is installed **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 17, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491 "2017-08-17T21:58:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/1 "2017-08-17T21:58:30Z")
I dont see any X-pack related setting in Kibana.yml file although the X-pack plugin is installed, neither do i see anything on the Kibana UI . /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin list metric\_percent\_vis@5.5.1 x-pack@5.5.1 ---
**Author:** ![slarsendisney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/slarsendisney/32/19892_2.png) [@slarsendisney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slarsendisney)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/2 "2017-08-18T09:12:02Z")
you can find the xpack settings in the elasticsearch.yml ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/3 "2017-08-18T14:37:00Z")
I am sure i can find in elasticsearch.yml but i need the x-pack for kibana where i want to see various modules like Monitoring, Machine learning etc ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/4 "2017-08-18T21:13:34Z")
Installing X-Pack doesn't change the config file automatically. At first after install, X-Pack will run with all the config defaults. If you want to find the configurable options for X-Pack, you have to look up the documentation: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-settings.html) ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/5 "2017-08-18T21:15:20Z")
I agree, but once i install X-pack shouldnt i see the modules like Monitoring, Machine Learning etc on the Kibana UI But mine doesnt show anything ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/3/731b923ba645b3355dab362ae3f285cd579a14aa.png) ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/6 "2017-08-18T21:16:30Z")
Maybe X-Pack didn't get installed in Kibana as well? Did you run `bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack` in the Kibana install path? ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/7 "2017-08-18T21:18:38Z")
Yes i installed using the x-pack which i downloaded manually. my server doesnt have internet access ./kibana-plugin install file:///home/uns114/x-pack-5.5.1.zip ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/8 "2017-08-18T21:19:48Z")
Cool - that should work for installing X-Pack. Have you restarted Kibana after doing the X-Pack install? ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/9 "2017-08-18T21:20:30Z")
Yes i did systemctl restart kibana and when i do ./kibana-plugin list it gives me the output showing x-pack is installed ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/10 "2017-08-18T21:21:00Z")
x-pack@5.5.1 ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/11 "2017-08-18T21:22:50Z")
Hm, well I think I can safely assume you didn't disable the plugins in kibana.yml, because of your earlier questions. Try closing all your browser windows, and re-opening the Kibana UI. If that doesn't work, try clearing your cookies and your browser cache. ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/12 "2017-08-18T21:28:39Z")
Yes i did clear the cache, closed all the tabs and restarted the browser. It doesnt help. The problem is that i dont see any settings in kibana.yml file related to x-pack settings. That is kind of strange. ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/13 "2017-08-18T21:38:42Z")
Could it be a permission issue? My x-pack directory under /usr/share/kibana/plugin is owned by root and kibana is running as "kibana" user. ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/14 "2017-08-18T21:43:49Z")
> [@shroh](#): > > i dont see any settings in kibana.yml file related to x-pack settings Installing X-Pack in Kibana doesn't touch or make any changes to the kibana.yml file. > [@shroh](#): > > Could it be a permission issue? My x-pack directory under /usr/share/kibana/plugin is owned by root and kibana is running as β€œkibana” user. There are documented steps for ensuring that the Kibana user can access the plugin that was installed. See: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/\_installing\_plugins.html#\_installing\_plugins\_with\_linux\_packages](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/_installing_plugins.html#_installing_plugins_with_linux_packages) - hopefully that's the only issue πŸ˜€ ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/15 "2017-08-18T22:10:23Z")
I again installed it but now get this error while i launch the console: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/f/bf8b8217fb4887f9d1bd36aa6e04285431ff498a.png) ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/16 "2017-08-18T22:30:09Z")
Looks like the installation of the X-Pack plugin in Kibana wasn't successful. Can you please try the steps given in this issue: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9369#issuecomment-264896049](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9369#issuecomment-264896049) ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/17 "2017-08-18T22:35:17Z")
if i delete the files and folders, do i lose any visualisations that i have on kibana currently. I dont want to lose any of that work. ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/18 "2017-08-18T22:38:39Z")
> [@shroh](#): > > if i delete the files and folders, do i lose any visualisations that i have on kibana currently. I dont want to lose any of that work. No, the visualizations and work you do in Kibana is stored in Elasticsearch in the `.kibana` index. ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/19 "2017-08-19T02:09:56Z")
it started working now, but the question is , how do i get x-pack working? that was the real challenge πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491/20 "2017-08-19T02:44:54Z")
Thanks, after multiple attempts it is working now πŸ™‚ [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-x-pack-settings-in-kibana-yml-even-when-the-plugin-is-installed/97491.md?page=2)