Plugin installation failure

Elastic Stack Kibana
1

So this is weird...

I am trying to install a custom plugin located on a local directory to kibana. When I attempt to install using './kibana plugin --install'. I get the following:

[lma@qthlmwbtt02 bin]$ ./kibana plugin --install health-metric-vis -u file:/home/CIQDEV/ravi_lonberg/health_metric_vis-master.zip
Installing health-metric-vis
Attempting to transfer from file:/home/CIQDEV/ravi_lonberg/health_metric_vis-master.zip
Transferring 38802 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "child "server" fails because [child "basePath" fails because ["basePath" with value "/" fails to match the start with a slash, don't end with one pattern]]"
[lma@qthlmwbtt02 bin]$

I have no idea where to begin with this, please let me know what files would be helpful for me to upload in order to further this discussion.

Thanks,
Ravi

2

Are you setting server.basePath in your config file (kibana.yml)?

3

Yes I just checked and I am setting server.basePath

What is the difference between the following configuration in kibana.yml,

my configuration:

# If you are running kibana behind a proxy, and want to mount it at a path,
# specify that path here. The basePath can't end in a slash.
server.basePath: "/"

and the default kibana.yml, where server.basePath is commented out...

default:

# If you are running kibana behind a proxy, and want to mount it at a path,
# specify that path here. The basePath can't end in a slash.
# server.basePath: ""

?

Thanks!

4

The server.basePath setting should only be used if you're running Kibana behind a proxy or something that changes the root of Kibana to something other than /. And, as the instructions say:

The basePath can't end in a slash.

So your configuration is actually invalid, which is why you're seeing this error.

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5

Okay thanks for clarification. Hasn't been an issue until I tried to install a custom plugin