TypeError: Cannot read property 'message' of null

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I have recently upgraded the ELK stack from 5.4.2 to 6.0.0 and I have an issue in kibana where in the Discover tab or Management > Index Patterns tab I have an ajax error saying:

"Cannot read property 'message' of null".

This comes from one of the bundles

<kibana>/kibana/bundles/kibana.bundle.js?v=16070:231:27746

The ajax request is the following (will break on any pattern given)

HTTP 400 -- <kibana>/kibana/api/index_patterns/_fields_for_wildcard?pattern=...

So far I have done;

  • a fresh re-install of elasticsearch/kibana/logstash,
  • enabled/disabled x-pack along with custom realm,
  • uninstall x-pack,
  • used tar.gz items to override the .deb package stuff (in /usr/share/kibana) for kibana

All the other features of kibana seems to work just fine. I can use the console and _cat/indices just fine and all my stuff seems to be there. I have tried and upgraded kibana index from 5.4.2 to 6.0.0 without issues, that didn't seem to help so I also re-created one from scratch. Didn't help either.

Basically whenever I hit the Discover tab or the Management > Index Patterns tab I see the normal "first setup" page Configure an index pattern BUT when I try and add an index, it will fail (with the above error) and will also set kibana defaultIndex setting, and from there (unless I remove that default) the aforementioned tabs will simply display a blank page (not even the setup part).

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Hi @g-vamp,

would it be possible for you to provide the relevant console log output of the Kibana server for that request?

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For sure! Here is the kibana client side error from the ajax request followed by the json console output.

TypeError: Cannot read property 'message' of null
    at https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/kibana.bundle.js?v=16070:231:27746
    at processQueue (https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:39:9912)
    at https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:39:10805
    at Scope.$digest (https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:39:21741)
    at Scope.$apply (https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:39:24520)
    at done (https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:38:9495)
    at completeRequest (https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:38:13952)
    at XMLHttpRequest.requestError (https://<hostname>/kibana/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=16070:38:14800)
	
	
{  
   "type":"response",
   "@timestamp":"2017-12-04T14:17:55Z",
   "tags":[  

   ],
   "pid":1733,
   "method":"get",
   "statusCode":400,
   "req":{  
      "url":"/api/index_patterns/_fields_for_wildcard?pattern=logstash-*&meta_fields=%5B%22_source%22",
      "method":"get",
      "headers":{  
         "accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*",
         "accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate, br",
         "accept-language":"en-GB;q=1,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7",
         "host":"<hostname>",
         "kbn-version":"6.0.0",
         "referer":"https://<hostname>/kibana/app/kibana",
         ... stripped some custom headers from our proxy ...
         "connection":"Keep-Alive"
      },
      "remoteAddress":"10.3.0.67",
      "userAgent":"10.3.0.67",
      "referer":"https://<hostname>/kibana/app/kibana"
   },
   "res":{  
      "statusCode":400,
      "responseTime":30,
      "contentLength":9
   },
   "message":"GET /api/index_patterns/_fields_for_wildcard?pattern=logstash-*&meta_fields=%5B%22_source%22 400 30ms - 9.0B"
}
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Interesting, it looks like there is a %5D missing at the end of the url. Does your proxy accidentally truncate that url?

5

Nice catch! This is exactly what was the problem! Many thanks for your help!

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