# Starting kibana with Elasticsearch Coordinating with loadbalanced elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-kibana-with-elasticsearch-coordinating-with-loadbalanced-elasticsearch/217217>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-kibana-with-elasticsearch-coordinating-with-loadbalanced-elasticsearch/217217 "2020-01-30T14:53:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![andras.vecsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andras.vecsi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andras.vecsi)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-kibana-with-elasticsearch-coordinating-with-loadbalanced-elasticsearch/217217/1 "2020-01-30T14:53:39Z")

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Hello,

I'm building a new a elasticsearch,kibana,logstash cluster.

I was able to create a 3 node elasticsearch cluster with x-pack security.

I set the password to all my default users in elasticsearch.

I installed an elasticsearch service on my kibana server and set the followings to coordinate the kibana:  
node.master: false  
node.data: false  
node.ingest: false  
node.ml: false  
xpack.security.enabled: true  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/elastic-certificates.p12  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/elastic-certificates.p12  
discovery.seed\_hosts: ["elk-es-infra-01", "elk-es-infra-02", "elk-es-infra-03"]  
network.host: localhost  
http.port: 9200  
transport.host: 172.25.8.205  
transport.tcp.port: 9300  
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch  
cluster.name: elk-infra

My ES cluster configuration  
cluster.name: elk-infra  
node.name: es-node-01  
path.data: /elk/elasticsearch/data  
path.logs: /elk/elasticsearch/log  
http.port: 9200  
discovery.seed\_hosts: ["elk-es-infra-01", "elk-es-infra-02", "elk-es-infra-03"]  
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["es-node-01", "es-node-02", "es-node-03"]  
xpack.security.enabled: true  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/elastic-certificates.p12  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/elastic-certificates.p12

My kibana configuration  
server.port: 5601  
server.host: "172.25.8.205"  
server.name: "elk-ki-infra-01"  
elasticsearch.username: "kibana"  
elasticsearch.password: "notforpublic"  
pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid  
logging.dest: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log  
logging.verbose: true

My kibana service starts up and exit with the last line of the log:  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-01-30T14:34:31Z","tags":["debug","root"],"pid":3605,"message":"shutting root down"}

Warnings in the kibana log but no error:  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-01-30T14:34:26Z","tags":["warning","plugins","security","config"],"pid":3605,"message":"Generating a random key for xpack.security.encryptionKey. To prevent sessions from being invalidated on restart, please set xpack.security.encryptionKey in kibana.yml"}  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-01-30T14:34:26Z","tags":["warning","plugins","security","config"],"pid":3605,"message":"Session cookies will be transmitted over insecure connections. This is not recommended."}  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-01-30T14:34:29Z","tags":["warning","legacy-plugins"],"pid":3605,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/core\_plugins/visualizations","message":"Skipping non-plugin directory at /usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/core\_plugins/visualizations"}

Everything is on Centos, no firewall between them.  
I can do a curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty)' with kibana user and password working without a problem.

Could you please help me what did I miss ?

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-kibana-with-elasticsearch-coordinating-with-loadbalanced-elasticsearch/217217/2 "2020-01-30T15:40:57Z")

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@LeeDr can I please get some help with this? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![andras.vecsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andras.vecsi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andras.vecsi)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-kibana-with-elasticsearch-coordinating-with-loadbalanced-elasticsearch/217217/3 "2020-01-30T15:56:20Z")

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I found it, it was not visible in the debug kibana.log only syslog

Jan 30 16:24:50 elk-ki-infra-01 kibana[3689]: FATAL Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/run/kibana.pid'

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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:** [February 27, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-kibana-with-elasticsearch-coordinating-with-loadbalanced-elasticsearch/217217/4 "2020-02-27T15:56:25Z")

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