# Restarting Kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017 "2016-02-05T02:12:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![w0lverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@w0lverine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/w0lverine)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/1 "2016-02-05T02:12:01Z")

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I have installed sense and now I need to restart kibana and besides finding the process and killing it I can not find a command to restart the service.

> sudo service kibana restart

I feel like doesn't actually restart the service. What is the best way to restart kibana without rebooting?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/2 "2016-02-05T03:10:23Z")

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What version are you on?

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### Author: ![w0lverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@w0lverine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/w0lverine)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/3 "2016-02-05T12:05:17Z")

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kibana - 4.3.1 .tar.gz installation  
Elasticsearch -2.2.0 .deb installation

Since Kibana was a tar installation I issued the command:

> ./kibana serve restart

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I understand that the port is in use(Kibana is running) but I am assuming "serve restart" is not an actual command. So what is the best command to restart Kibana?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/4 "2016-02-06T01:20:32Z")

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There was no service for 4.3.X, its just calling the binary directly.  
So you will probably need to kill the process and then restart it.

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### Author: ![w0lverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@w0lverine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/w0lverine)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/5 "2016-02-07T14:57:15Z")

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That did it!

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### Author: ![MatthewHartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@MatthewHartz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MatthewHartz)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/6 "2017-02-18T03:56:41Z")

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@w0lverine @warkolm, I'm getting the same listen EADDRINUSE error and when i try to kill the process, (by every means I find on google), I can't seem to "kill" the process.

Any ideas? Thanks!

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-kibana/41017/7 "2017-07-06T13:33:06Z")

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