Troubleshoot

This page contains a list of issues and workarounds.

Multi-tenancy issues in Kibana

If you’re testing multiple users in Kibana and encounter unexpected changes in tenant, use Google Chrome in an Incognito window or Firefox in a Private window.

Beats

If you encounter compatibility issues when attempting to connect Beats to Open Distro for Elasticsearch, make sure you’re using the Apache 2.0 distribution of Beats, not the default distribution, which uses a proprietary license.

As of version 6.7, the default distribution of Beats includes a license check and fails to connect to the Apache 2.0 distribution of Elasticsearch.

Dependency error during upgrade

If you run sudo yum upgrade and receive a dependency error, Elasticsearch likely has a new minor version that the Open Distro for Elasticsearch plugins don’t support yet. You can install a specific, supported version of Elasticsearch to resolve the issue.

A temporary solution is to add the --skip-broken option to upgrade the rest of your system:

sudo yum upgrade --skip-broken

Elasticsearch fails to start on Java 8 (RPM install)

If Elasticsearch fails to start and you’re using Java 8, verify that you set the symbolic link (symlink) correctly in step 5 of the RPM installation. If Java is installed to a non-standard path, try looking for tools.jar using the following command:

ls /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-*/lib/tools.jar

Then you can delete the old symlink and create a new one to the corrected path:

sudo rm /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/tools.jar
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.191.b12-0.amzn2.x86_64/lib/tools.jar /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/