# X-pack not recognized by kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820 "2017-10-13T04:31:31Z")
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### Author: ![daianmartinho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@daianmartinho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daianmartinho)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820/1 "2017-10-13T04:31:31Z")

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I have installed kibana 5.6.3, then x-pack, but i can't see monitoring menu at kibana.

> xpack.security.enabled: false  
> xpack.monitoring.enabled: true  
> xpack.watcher.enabled: false  
> xpack.ml.enabled: false  
> xpack.graph.enabled: false

The cluster of elasticsearch has x-pack with the same configs above, indices .monitoring-es-6-\* are indexing normally.

i have already tried to re-install kibana and x-pack, without success.

I did not found any info at log even in quiet:false

can someone help me?

tnks

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### Author: ![daianmartinho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@daianmartinho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daianmartinho)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820/2 "2017-10-13T04:51:43Z")

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resolved with

> chown -R kibana:kibana /usr/share/kibana/plugins/x-pack

please, fix and DOC it ..

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820/3 "2017-10-13T05:05:16Z")

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> [@daianmartinho](#):
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> please, fix and DOC it ..

You shouldn't need to do this.  
How did you install Kibana, what about X-Pack? What OS?

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### Author: ![daianmartinho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@daianmartinho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daianmartinho)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820/4 "2017-10-13T05:15:57Z")

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rhel-7  
yum install kibana  
/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820/5 "2017-10-13T05:37:23Z")

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Were you root when you did this?

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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: [November 10, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-not-recognized-by-kibana/103820/6 "2017-11-10T05:37:26Z")

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