kibana plugin --install with a timeout fails

[mikeforbes]

I wonder if the default timeout value of 0 might be being ignored somehow..

My ansible playbook task seems to think a successful plugin install fails (it probably takes so long as it's running on my laptop in a vm)
e.g

# ./bin/kibana plugin --install "elasticsearch/marvel"
Installing marvel
Attempting to transfer from https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.tar.gz
Transferring 1523138 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...
Killed
#

It is installed successfully, but the "Killed" means it's causing my ansible task to call it a failure.

The real issue however, is the timeout values seem to be ignored:

I tried adding a timeout value and I get:

sudo ./bin/kibana plugin --install "elasticsearch/marvel" --timeout 5m
Installing marvel
Attempting to transfer from https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.tar.gz
Error: Client request timeout
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "Client request timeout"

other values seem to have no effect:

sudo ./bin/kibana plugin --install "elasticsearch/marvel" --timeout 0
Installing marvel
Attempting to transfer from https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.tar.gz
Error: Client request timeout
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "Client request timeout"

sudo ./bin/kibana plugin --install "elasticsearch/marvel" --timeout 30s
Installing marvel
Attempting to transfer from https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.tar.gz
Error: Client request timeout
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "Client request timeout"

running kibana 4.4.1, ubuntu package installed from the elastic debian repo

[regel]

Hi Mike,
I'm in trouble with the same issue. Did you find any workaround or patch to solve this ?
Environment: kibana 4.5.4 and trying to install html plugin. The process is running in packer. We're packaging a RHEL7 AMI.

Plugin install is randomly killed while doing 'Optimizing and caching browser bundles...'
amazon-ebs: + ./bin/kibana plugin -i kibana-html-plugin -u https://github.com/raystorm-place/kibana-html-plugin/releases/download/v0.0.3/kibana-html-plugin-v0.0.3.tar.gz
amazon-ebs: Installing kibana-html-plugin
amazon-ebs: Attempting to transfer from https://github.com/raystorm-place/kibana-html-plugin/releases/download/v0.0.3/kibana-html-plugin-v0.0.3.tar.gz
amazon-ebs: Transferring 2260613 bytes....................
amazon-ebs: Transfer complete
amazon-ebs: Extracting plugin archive
amazon-ebs: Extraction complete
amazon-ebs: Optimizing and caching browser bundles...
amazon-ebs: /tmp/script_4105.sh: line 130: 9454 Killed ./bin/kibana plugin -i kibana-html-plugin -u https://github.com/raystorm-place/kibana-html-plugin/releases/download/v0.0.3/kibana-html-plugin-v0.0.3.tar.gz
==> amazon-ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance...

[regel]

As a workaround we're building the AMI with a larger EC2 instance so that we don't run into this strange Kibana timeout issue.

[mikeforbes]

@regel Yeah, I just stopped using kibana plugins.

Be nice to get a fix though...

[mrkeelan]

I'm also running into this issue on a virtual machine, guess there isn't enough RAM.