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Kibana 4.5 run as service on CentOS 7

What is the proper way to run Kibana 4.5 as service on CentOS 7? When I run it as ./kibana, I can conenct to it form another machine without any problem. When I run it with systemctl start kibana and check with ps -ef | grep '.*node/bin/node.*src/cli'it looks like running but refuses to connect. And goes down. What can be the problem? Thanks in advance.

Here is content of kibana.service file

[Unit]
Description=no description given

[Service]
Type=simple
User=kibana
Group=root
Environment=CONFIG_PATH=/opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml
ExecStart=/opt/kibana/bin/kibana
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Solution

  • I am not that much of a linux expert but i recently installed kibana using yum (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.5/setup.html#kibana-yum) on a minimal installation of CentOS 7 and did not face any issues whatsoever.

    In order to have some debug logs and find out what is wrong in your case, edit the kibana configurations file

    /opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml

    and set a filename for the logging.dest property. 

    logging.dest: /var/log/kibana.log

    Good luck