diff --git a/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/systemd/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service b/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/systemd/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service
index 1d88ee535fefa..e66e0e7c8dfb5 100644
--- a/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/systemd/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service
+++ b/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/systemd/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Group=kibana
 # exist, it continues onward.
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/kibana
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kibana
-ExecStart=/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana "-c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml"
+ExecStart=/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana
 Restart=on-failure
 RestartSec=3
 StartLimitBurst=3
diff --git a/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/sysv/etc/init.d/kibana b/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/sysv/etc/init.d/kibana
index a17d15522b45e..ce29fd12b8e3c 100755
--- a/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/sysv/etc/init.d/kibana
+++ b/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/sysv/etc/init.d/kibana
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 name=kibana
 program=/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana
-args=-c\\\ /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
 pidfile="/var/run/$name.pid"
 
 [ -r /etc/default/$name ] && . /etc/default/$name
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ start() {
   chroot --userspec "$user":"$group" "$chroot" sh -c "
 
     cd \"$chdir\"
-    exec \"$program\" $args
+    exec \"$program\"
   " >> /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout 2>> /var/log/kibana/kibana.stderr &
 
   # Generate the pidfile from here. If we instead made the forked process