[SOLVED] Kibana fork not connecting to OpenDistro ES

I’ve forked Kibana from GitHub - elastic/kibana: Your window into the Elastic Stack and I’m working off v7.7.0. I’ve started opendistro ES (to work with the kibana version I’m targeting):

docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9600:9600 -e "discovery.type=single-node" amazon/opendistro-for-elasticsearch:1.8.0

Then I try to run kibana locally from my desktop, using this config:

server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.hosts: https://localhost:9200
elasticsearch.username: kibanaserver
elasticsearch.password: kibanaserver
elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhiteList: ["securitytenant", "Authorization"]

# I copied the pems' out of the opendistro ES containter
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/kirk-key.pem
elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/kirk.pem
elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/root-ca.pem"]

opendistro_security.multitenancy.enabled: false
opendistro_security.multitenancy.tenants.preferred: ["Private", "Global"]
opendistro_security.readonly_mode.roles: ["kibana_read_only"]

opendistro_security.cookie.secure: false

newsfeedd.enabled: false
telemetry.optIn: false
telemetry.enabled: false

When I start kibana with yarn start I see a warning “License information could not be obtained from Elasticsearch due to [invalid_index_name_exception] Invalid index name [xpack], must not start with ''…”

Followed by:

[fatal][root] { Error: [mapper_parsing_exception] No handler for type [flattened] declared on field [state]`

Then kibana crashes.

No errors in the ES logs.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Not 100% sure but Opendistro doesn’t include xpack anyway

I just figured it out thanks to this issue.

I had to start the “oss” flavor of kibana with yarn start --oss