ERROR: Failed to determine the health of the cluster [closed]

Question

I am running Elasticsearch and kibana, I am not sure of the status of my elasticsearsh cluster (if its red, yellow, or green) but it seems I need to get a token generated by elasticsearch as in the screenshot when I ran bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token --scope kibana from the right directory it errors out ERROR: Failed to determine the health of the cluster..

Answer 1

According Ioannis Kakavas in discuss.elastic, "CLI tools extending BaseRunAsSuperuserCommand should only connect to the local node". When I run in a local node, it works. But when I run in the elasticsearch container in a cluster, it doesn't work. The solution was execute the elastic-search-reset-password and elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token scripts, respectively, like this (inside the elasticsearch container):

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-reset-password -i -u elastic --url https://localhost:9200

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token -s kibana --url https://localhost:9200

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem, and I just redid the process - unzipped the ES and kibana zip files again, and ran bin/elasticsearch in the newly created directory. Look for a message that is encapsulated in a formatted box that contains both the password for the elastic user, and the enrollment token for Kibana (the token is only valid for 30 minutes). This message will only appear once, the first time you run elasticsearch.

I proceeded to run bin/kibana for Kibana and configured it in the browser, and everything worked out from there. Hope this helps!