Beats 7.0 won't start if "setup.dashboards.enabled = true" and kibana is not reachable

When in *beat config the option "setup.dashboards.enabled = true" is set and the Kibana server is not reachable/or in startup phase while starting beats the beats startup will fail.

Apr 29 08:15:26 elastic1 auditbeat: 
2019-04-29T08:15:26.666Z#011ERROR#011instance/beat.go:802#011Exiting: 
error connecting to Kibana: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET 
request to https://elastic1.localdomain:5601/api/status fails: parsing 
kibana response: invalid character 'K' looking for beginning of value. 
Response: Kibana server is not ready yet. Apr 29 08:15:26 elastic1 
auditbeat: Exiting: error connecting to Kibana: fail to get the Kibana 
version: HTTP GET request to 
https://elastic1.localdomain:5601/api/status fails: parsing kibana 
response: invalid character 'K' looking for beginning of value. 
Response: Kibana server is not ready yet. Apr 29 08:15:26 elastic1 
systemd: auditbeat.service: main process exited, code=exited, 
status=1/FAILURE Apr 29 08:15:26 elastic1 systemd: Unit 
auditbeat.service entered failed state. Apr 29 08:15:26 elastic1 
systemd: auditbeat.service failed.

Is this a bug or a feature, I think in Version 6.X there is another behaviour and the beat will start also when the kibana isn't reachable.

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