how to stop kibana (not as a service)?

Question

I am trying to stop kibana on SSH with kill but it respawns immediatly

dagatsoin@dagatsoin.io [~/logstash]# ps aux | grep kibana
533      28778  0.0  0.0   9292   876 pts/2    S+   00:16   0:00 grep kibana
dagatsoin@dagatsoin.io [~/logstash]# kill -kill 28778
-bash: kill: (28778) - Aucun processus de ce type
dagatsoin@dagatsoin.io [~/logstash]# ps aux | grep kibana
533      28780  0.0  0.0   9292   876 pts/2    S+   00:16   0:00 grep kibana
dagatsoin@dagatsoin.io [~/logstash]#

How do you kill this process ?

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '16 at 09:45

As mentioned the output that you are seeing is from the ps aux | grep kibana command that you ran. I'm guessing you started kibana using by running the kibana scipt in the bin directory. In this case do something like this:

ps -ef | grep '.*node/bin/node.*src/cli'

Look for the line that looks something like this:

username   5989  2989  1 11:33 pts/1    00:00:05 ./../node/bin/node ./../src/cli

Then run a kill -9 5989 If you have multiple output rows make sure you kill the correct process.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 24 '15 at 00:20

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You try to kill your grep process, not kibana service who is not running currently.

answered Nov 24 '15 at 00:20

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Matko Soric · Answer 3 · 2019-03-12T15:14:07.090

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For me, nothing worked on Ubuntu 18, except this:

systemctl stop snap.kibana.kibana

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answered Mar 12 '19 at 13:51

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 26 '15 at 12:05

You kibana process is not running. when you do run a ps aux command and pipe it with a grep command, grep will be running as a separate process. hence its shows up in the ps aux output as process no 28778 or 28780. you can observe that the process number is changing. every-time you stop the ps aux grep process also ends as it is piped with ps and it starts as a new process(id) when you rerun it. hence you are getting an error when you run kill -kill 28778 as it has already stopped.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 17 '18 at 09:16

When you start your Kibana using the start script in $KIBANA_HOME/bin/kibana, this script runs another script in $KIBANA_HOME/node/bin/node. Remember, you must search using ps command for a different name (not Kibana name).

So I use ps awwwx | grep -i ./bin/../node/bin/node | grep -v grep on new Linux versions like Ubuntu 18 (or ps -ef | grep -i ./bin/../node/bin/node | grep -v grep on older versions) to search for the Kibana node. This command will give you the accurate PID and you can kill the Kibana node via mentioned PID.

grep -v grep part of this command is just to omit the unnecessary lines from the output of the command.

how to stop kibana (not as a service)?

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