# Warning messages in kibana - not connecting to elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-messages-in-kibana-not-connecting-to-elasticsearch/376015
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 17, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-messages-in-kibana-not-connecting-to-elasticsearch/376015 "2025-03-17T14:32:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@DOkuwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DOkuwa)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-messages-in-kibana-not-connecting-to-elasticsearch/376015/1 "2025-03-17T14:32:09Z")
elasticsearch and kibana seems to be working but kibana cannot connect to elasticsearch
```auto
# systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor pres>
Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-03-17 14:04:52 CET; 1h 16min ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co
Main PID: 3376445 (node)
Tasks: 11 (limit: 49465)
Memory: 464.4M
CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
└─3376445 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/glibc-217/bin/node /usr/shar>
Mar 17 14:05:06 ibcinsmartsd12v kibana[3376445]: [2025-03-17T14:05:06.785+01:00>
Mar 17 14:05:06 ibcinsmartsd12v kibana[3376445]: [2025-03-17T14:05:06.874+01:00>
Mar 17 14:05:07 ibcinsmartsd12v kibana[3376445]: [2025-03-17T14:05:07.439+01:00>
Mar 17 14:05:07 ibcinsmartsd12v kibana[3376445]: [2025-03-17T14:05:07.441+01:00>
Mar 17 14:05:10 ibcinsmartsd12v kibana[3376445]: [2025-03-17T14:05:10.165+01:00
```
```auto
systemctl status elasticsearch
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vend>
Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-03-17 10:19:51 CET; 5h 2min ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co
Main PID: 3346193 (java)
Tasks: 111 (limit: 49465)
Memory: 3.4G
CGroup: /system.slice/elasticsearch.service
├─3346193 /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -Xms4m -Xmx64m -XX:+>
├─3346257 /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -Des.networkaddress.>
└─3346279 /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/x-pack-ml/platform/linux->
```
```auto
tail -f kibana.log | grep WARN
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.11.0"},"@timestamp":"2025-03-17T14:05:06.785+01:00","message":"APIs are disabled because the Encrypted Saved Objects plugin is missing encryption key. Please set xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey in the kibana.yml or use the bin/kibana-encryption-keys command.","log":{"level":"WARN","logger":"plugins.actions"},"process":{"pid":3376445,"uptime":14.095067308},"trace":{"id":"4b293a54eec524ad9e2a35ecb0b128cd"},"transaction":{"id":"e15971d1522d4b71"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.11.0"},"@timestamp":"2025-03-17T14:05:07.439+01:00","message":"APIs are disabled because the Encrypted Saved Objects plugin is missing encryption key. Please set xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey in the kibana.yml or use the bin/kibana-encryption-keys command.","log":{"level":"WARN","logger":"plugins.alerting"},"process":{"pid":3376445,"uptime":14.750002086},"trace":{"id":"4b293a54eec524ad9e2a35ecb0b128cd"},"transaction":{"id":"e15971d1522d4b71"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.11.0"},"@timestamp":"2025-03-17T14:05:10.165+01:00","message":"Generating a random key for xpack.reporting.encryptionKey. To prevent sessions from being invalidated on restart, please set xpack.reporting.encryptionKey in the kibana.yml or use the bin/kibana-encryption-keys command.","log":{"level":"WARN","logger":"plugins.reporting.config"},"process":{"pid":3376445,"uptime":17.475644295},"trace":{"id":"4b293a54eec524ad9e2a35ecb0b128cd"},"transaction":{"id":"e15971d1522d4b71"}}
```
My kibana.yml file
```auto
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt
#elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key
# Enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate
# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"]
# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
# =================== System: Logging ===================
# Set the value of this setting to off to suppress all logging output, or to debug to log everything. Defaults to 'info'
#logging.root.level: debug
# Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
logging:
appenders:
file:
type: file
fileName: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log
layout:
type: json
root:
appenders:
- default
- file
# policy:
# type: size-limit
# size: 256mb
# strategy:
# type: numeric
# max: 10
# layout:
# type: json
# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch.
#logging.loggers:
# - name: elasticsearch.query
# level: debug
# Logs http responses.
#logging.loggers:
# - name: http.server.response
```
```auto
curl --cacert /etc/elasticsearch/certs/http_ca.crt -u elastic:xxxxxxxx https://localhost:9200
{
"name" : "ibcinsmartsd12v",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"cluster_uuid" : "oDcQEF_jQTiJjESJnLlpPQ",
"version" : {
"number" : "8.17.3",
"build_flavor" : "default",
"build_type" : "rpm",
"build_hash" : "a091390de485bd4b127884f7e565c0cad59b10d2",
"build_date" : "2025-02-28T10:07:26.089129809Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "9.12.0",
"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "7.17.0",
"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "7.0.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
```
---
### Author:  [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-messages-in-kibana-not-connecting-to-elasticsearch/376015/2 "2025-03-17T20:41:33Z")
> [@DOkuwa](#):
>
> ```auto
> {"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.11.0"},"@timestamp":"2025-03-17T14:05:10.165+01:00","message":"Generating a random key for xpack.reporting.encryptionKey. To prevent sessions from being invalidated on restart, please set xpack.reporting.encryptionKey in the kibana.yml or use the bin/kibana-encryption-keys command.","log":{"level":"WARN","logger":"plugins.reporting.config"},"process":{"pid":3376445,"uptime":17.475644295},"trace":{"id":"4b293a54eec524ad9e2a35ecb0b128cd"},"transaction":{"id":"e15971d1522d4b71"}}
>
> ```
key bit here is IMO
> _To prevent sessions from being invalidated on restart_ ...
So, did you follow the advice
> please set xpack.reporting.encryptionKey in the kibana.yml or use the bin/kibana-encryption-keys command
> [@DOkuwa](#):
>
> kibana seems to be working but kibana cannot connect to elasticsearch
btw, Im not sure what "working" means if kibana cannot connect to elasticsearch - I would call that "not working" personally.