Reporting Troubleshooting

If a report label is rendered as an empty rectangle, no system fonts are available. Install at least one font package on the system.

If the report is missing certain Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, ensure that a system font with those characters is installed.

You might see "There was an error generating your report" or one of the following errors when you download your report. See below for an explanation of why the failure occurred and what you can do to fix it.

Reporting using PhantomJS, the default browser, relies on system packages. Install the appropriate fontconfig and freetype packages for your distrobution.

There are two primary causes of this error:

Create a Markdown visualization and then create a PDF report. If this succeeds, increase the xpack.reporting.queue.timeout setting. If the PDF report fails with "Max attempts reached (3)," check your Kibana server settings.

Reporting using the Chromium browser relies on system packages and at least one system font. Install the appropriate fontconfig and freetype packages for your distrobution and at least one system font.

Reporting using the Chromium browser relies on the Network Security Service libraries (NSS). Install the appropriate nss package for your distrobution.

Chromium uses sandboxing techniques that are built on top of operating system primitives. The Linux sandbox depends on user namespaces, which were introduced with the 3.8 Linux kernel. However, many distrobutions don’t have user namespaces enabled by default, or they require the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.

Elastic recommends that you research the feasibility of enabling unprivileged user namespaces before disabling the sandbox. An exception is if you are running Kibana in Docker because the container runs in a user namespace with the built-in seccomp/bpf filters.

Ensure that the phantomjs binary in your Kibana data directory is owned by the user who is running Kibana, that the user has the execute permission, and if applicable, that the filesystem is mounted with the exec option.

Ensure that the headless_shell binary located in your Kibana data directory is owned by the user who is running Kibana, that the user has the execute permission, and if applicable, that the filesystem is mounted with the exec option.