# /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node: bad option: --max-http-header-size=65536. (Kibana 7.1.1)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [June 9, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882 "2019-06-09T15:50:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882/1 "2019-06-09T15:50:57Z")

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**Issue**  
I keep on getting the following error when I compose the kibana docker file  
`unable to find usable node.js executable.`

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/c/bc555efefc9038bb67af29210c58ec0ba0b263da.png)

Attached is the docker image code

```
FROM node:10.15.2-alpine

# Include dist
ADD dist/ /root/dist/

# Setup env and apt
RUN sed -i 's/dl-cdn/dl-2/g' /etc/apk/repositories && \
    apk -U --no-cache add \
            aria2 \
            curl && \

# Get and install packages
    cd /root/dist/ && \
    mkdir -p /usr/share/kibana/ && \
    aria2c -s 16 -x 16 https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && \
    tar xvfz kibana-7.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C /usr/share/kibana/ && \

# Kibana's bundled node does not work in alpine
    rm /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node && \
    ln -s /usr/bin/node /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node && \

# Setup user, groups and configs
    sed -i 's/#server.basePath: ""/server.basePath: "\/kibana"/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#kibana.defaultAppId: "home"/kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboards"/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#server.host: "localhost"/server.host: "0.0.0.0"/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#elasticsearch.hosts: \["http:\/\/localhost:9200"\]/elasticsearch.hosts: \["http:\/\/elasticsearch:9200"\]/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#server.rewriteBasePath: false/server.rewriteBasePath: false/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.infra.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \ 
    echo "xpack.logstash.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.canvas.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.spaces.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.apm.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    rm -rf /usr/share/kibana/optimize/bundles/* && \
    /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --optimize && \
    addgroup -g 2000 kibana && \
    adduser -S -H -s /bin/ash -u 2000 -D -g 2000 kibana && \
    chown -R kibana:kibana /usr/share/kibana/ && \

# Clean up
    apk del --purge aria2 && \
    rm -rf /root/* && \
    rm -rf /tmp/* && \
    rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*

# Healthcheck
HEALTHCHECK --retries=10 CMD curl -s -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:5601'

# Start kibana
STOPSIGNAL SIGKILL
USER kibana:kibana
CMD ["/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana"]
```

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882/2 "2019-06-09T16:39:42Z")

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Well now i am getting

`/usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node: bad option: --max-http-header-size=65536`

docker file now looks like this

```
FROM node:10.15.2-alpine
# Include dist
ADD dist/ /root/dist/

# Setup env and apt
RUN sed -i 's/dl-cdn/dl-2/g' /etc/apk/repositories && \
    apk -U --no-cache add \
            aria2 \
            bash \
            make \ 
            nodejs \ 
            openjdk8-jre \
            curl && \
apk upgrade && \
# Get and install packages
    cd /root/dist/ && \
    mkdir -p /usr/share/kibana/ && \
    aria2c -s 16 -x 16 https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-7.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && \
    tar xvfz kibana-7.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C /usr/share/kibana/ && \

# Kibana's bundled node does not work in alpine
    rm /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node && \
    ln -s /usr/bin/node /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node && \

# Setup user, groups and configs
    sed -i 's/#server.basePath: ""/server.basePath: "\/kibana"/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#kibana.defaultAppId: "home"/kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboards"/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#server.host: "localhost"/server.host: "0.0.0.0"/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#elasticsearch.hosts: \["http:\/\/localhost:9200"\]/elasticsearch.hosts: \["http:\/\/elasticsearch:9200"\]/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    sed -i 's/#server.rewriteBasePath: false/server.rewriteBasePath: false/' /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.infra.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \ 
    echo "xpack.logstash.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.canvas.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.spaces.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    echo "xpack.apm.enabled: false" >> /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml && \
    rm -rf /usr/share/kibana/optimize/bundles/* && \
    /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --optimize && \
    addgroup -g 2000 kibana && \
    adduser -S -H -s /bin/ash -u 2000 -D -g 2000 kibana && \
    chown -R kibana:kibana /usr/share/kibana/ && \

# Clean up
    apk del --purge aria2 && \
    rm -rf /root/* && \
    rm -rf /tmp/* && \
    rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*

# Healthcheck
HEALTHCHECK --retries=10 CMD curl -s -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:5601'

# Start kibana
STOPSIGNAL SIGKILL
USER kibana:kibana
CMD ["/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana"]
```

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882/3 "2019-06-10T12:46:15Z")

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I'm not totally familiar with node's alpine linux version, I'm assuming it was compiled from source and the header size option hasn't been added yet. It was added in a more recent node.js version.

If you want, you can try removing the flag from the bin/kibana. The default is now 8kb and we saw some cases where headers were too long when generating reports, but otherwise functionality was fine.

Alternatively using the node.js bundled with Kibana would work 🙂

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882/4 "2019-06-10T13:03:18Z")

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Thanks bro! will keep on plugging away.

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882/5 "2019-06-10T13:03:43Z")

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also allow filtering in Composite searches. Will make me very VERY happy!

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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 8, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/usr-share-kibana-bin-node-bin-node-bad-option-max-http-header-size-65536-kibana-7-1-1/184882/6 "2019-07-08T13:03:45Z")

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