I bumped up the Timeout to some crazy high number and that didn't work. I have 2477 fields. I also put X11 and firefox and went local to by pass nginx.
One thing I just tried is pointed the kibana to a new indices and on startup the I see the indices created. But get the same sort of error messages:
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:38:41Z","tags":[],"pid":1831,"method":"get","statusCode":200,"req":{"url":"/elasticsearch/logstash-/_mapping/field/?=1496255921770&ignore_unavailable=false&allow_no_indices=false&include_defaults=true","method":"get","headers":{"host":"localhost:5601","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0","accept":"application/json, text/plain, /","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.5","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate","kbn-version":"5.4.0","referer":"http://localhost:5601/app/kibana","connection":"keep-alive"},"remoteAddress":"127.0.0.1","userAgent":"127.0.0.1","referer":"http://localhost:5601/app/kibana"},"res":{"statusCode":200,"responseTime":5354,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /elasticsearch/logstash-/_mapping/field/?=1496255921770&ignore_unavailable=false&allow_no_indices=false&include_defaults=true 200 5354ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:39:17Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","data"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nPOST http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/logstash-/_field_stats?fields=&allow_no_indices=false => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:39:19Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes..ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:39:47Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","data"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nPOST http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/logstash-/_field_stats?fields=&allow_no_indices=false => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:39:49Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes..ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:40:17Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","data"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nPOST http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/logstash-/_field_stats?fields=&allow_no_indices=false => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:40:19Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes..ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:40:47Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","data"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request complete with error\nPOST http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/logstash-/_field_stats?fields=&allow_no_indices=false => socket hang up"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:38:47Z","tags":[],"pid":1831,"method":"get","statusCode":503,"req":{"url":"/api/kibana/logstash-/field_capabilities","method":"get","headers":{"host":"localhost:5601","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0","accept":"application/json, text/plain, /","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.5","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate","kbn-version":"5.4.0","referer":"http://localhost:5601/app/kibana","connection":"keep-alive"},"remoteAddress":"127.0.0.1","userAgent":"127.0.0.1","referer":"http://localhost:5601/app/kibana"},"res":{"statusCode":503,"responseTime":120058,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /api/kibana/logstash-/field_capabilities 503 120058ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:40:49Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request complete with error\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes..ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:40:49Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.4.0","error"],"pid":1831,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from green to red - Error: socket hang up","prevState":"green","prevMsg":"Kibana index ready"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:40:49Z","tags":["status","ui settings","error"],"pid":1831,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from green to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red","prevState":"green","prevMsg":"Ready"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:41:21Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes..ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:41:51Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes..ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:42:21Z","tags":["error","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1831,"message":"Request error, retrying\nGET http://kibana06-vlp.du.edu:9200/_nodes?filter_path=nodes..version%2Cnodes..http.publish_address%2Cnodes.*.ip => socket hang up"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:42:42Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.4.0","info"],"pid":1831,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from red to green - Kibana index ready","prevState":"red","prevMsg":{"code":"ECONNRESET"}}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-31T18:42:42Z","tags":["status","ui settings","info"],"pid":1831,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from red to green - Ready","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Elasticsearch plugin is red"}