Kibana 5.0.0-alpha6 Unable to create Kibana index ".kibana"

[LeeDr]

Kibana version: http://staging.elastic.co/5.0.0-alpha6-b2c88dcc/download/kibana/kibana-5.0.0-alpha6-amd64.deb

Elasticsearch version: http://staging.elastic.co/5.0.0-alpha6-b2c88dcc/download/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.0.0-alpha6.deb

Server OS version: Ubuntu 14.04

Browser version: Chrome

Browser OS version:

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): dpkg -i

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior: Kibana goes to status page and shows Unable to create Kibana index ".kibana"

Steps to reproduce:

1. get builds from http://staging.elastic.co/5.0.0-alpha6-b2c88dcc/summary.html
2. Elasticsearch seems to be up and operating normally. Other products all created indices;

yellow open logstash-2016.08.19   ByfLlw2TRPGxsVKx-mi3Dw 5 1  1031 0   350kb   350kb
yellow open metricbeat-2016.08.19 mS6wf3d-TV2obgZueOjgRw 5 1 10193 0   3.1mb   3.1mb
yellow open packetbeat-2016.08.19 En4PaZplROGr49lS6ta8hg 5 1  1009 0 524.6kb 524.6kb
yellow open filebeat-2016.08.19   VVSUxeOaRV-sSgT7WSTiAg 5 1  9878 0   1.9mb   1.9mb

1. "ui settings" in status page also shows Elasticsearch plugin is red

Errors in browser console (if relevant):

Provide logs and/or server output (if relevant):

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:35Z","tags":["status","ui settings","error"],"pid":3039,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Elasticsearch plugin is yellow"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:37Z","tags":[],"pid":3039,"method":"get","statusCode":400,"req":{"url":"/api/reporting/jobs/list?page=0","method":"get","headers":{"host":"localhost:5620","connection":"keep-alive","pragma":"no-cache","cache-control":"no-cache","accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*","kbn-version":"5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36","referer":"http://localhost:5620/app/kibana","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate, sdch","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8,fr-FR;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4,de-DE;q=0.2,de;q=0.2"},"remoteAddress":"10.0.2.2","userAgent":"10.0.2.2","referer":"http://localhost:5620/app/kibana"},"res":{"statusCode":400,"responseTime":2,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /api/reporting/jobs/list?page=0 400 2ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:42Z","tags":[],"pid":3039,"method":"get","statusCode":400,"req":{"url":"/api/reporting/jobs/list_completed_since?since=2016-08-18T21%3A04%3A07.915Z","method":"get","headers":{"host":"localhost:5620","connection":"keep-alive","pragma":"no-cache","cache-control":"no-cache","accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*","kbn-version":"5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36","referer":"http://localhost:5620/app/kibana","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate, sdch","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8,fr-FR;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4,de-DE;q=0.2,de;q=0.2"},"remoteAddress":"10.0.2.2","userAgent":"10.0.2.2","referer":"http://localhost:5620/app/kibana"},"res":{"statusCode":400,"responseTime":3,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /api/reporting/jobs/list_completed_since?since=2016-08-18T21%3A04%3A07.915Z 400 3ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:42Z","tags":[],"pid":3039,"method":"get","statusCode":400,"req":{"url":"/api/reporting/jobs/list?page=0","method":"get","headers":{"host":"localhost:5620","connection":"keep-alive","pragma":"no-cache","cache-control":"no-cache","accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*","kbn-version":"5.0.0-alpha5-SNAPSHOT","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36","referer":"http://localhost:5620/app/kibana","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate, sdch","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8,fr-FR;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4,de-DE;q=0.2,de;q=0.2"},"remoteAddress":"10.0.2.2","userAgent":"10.0.2.2","referer":"http://localhost:5620/app/kibana"},"res":{"statusCode":400,"responseTime":6,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /api/reporting/jobs/list?page=0 400 6ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:42Z","tags":["status","plugin:[email protected]","info"],"pid":3039,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from red to yellow - No existing Kibana index found","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Unable to create Kibana index \".kibana\""}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:42Z","tags":["status","ui settings","info"],"pid":3039,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from red to yellow - Elasticsearch plugin is yellow","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"Elasticsearch plugin is red"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:42Z","tags":["status","plugin:[email protected]","error"],"pid":3039,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Unable to create Kibana index \".kibana\"","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"No existing Kibana index found"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-08-19T13:16:42Z","tags":["status","ui settings","error"],"pid":3039,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Elasticsearch plugin is yellow"}

[tylersmalley]

I have a PR which addresses this, just working on fixing tests.