# Can't open Kibana because it says I'm using Elasticsearch 6.2.4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-open-kibana-because-it-says-im-using-elasticsearch-6-2-4/147246>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 4, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-open-kibana-because-it-says-im-using-elasticsearch-6-2-4/147246 "2018-09-04T17:00:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ksantone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@ksantone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ksantone)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-open-kibana-because-it-says-im-using-elasticsearch-6-2-4/147246/1 "2018-09-04T17:00:56Z")

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So I downloaded Elasticsearch and Kibana (both versions 6.4) but when I run bin/kibana (after having ran bin/elasticsearch) I get the error:

log [16:53:08.247] [error][status][plugin:security@6.4.0] Status changed from yellow to red - This version of Kibana requires Elasticsearch v6.4.0 on all nodes. I found the following incompatible nodes in your cluster: v6.2.4 @ 127.0.0.1:9200 (127.0.0.1)

And when I open localhost:5601 I get the error:

"It appears you're running the oss-only distribution of Elasticsearch.

To use the full set of free features in this distribution of Kibana, please update Elasticsearch to the [default distribution](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch)."

I'm not sure why this is because I have downloaded version 6.4 of elasticsearch (the folder name from unzipping is called elasticsearch-6.4.0). Furthermore when I open localhost:9200 it says my cluster version number is 6.2.4 even though the folder is 6.4.0 so I have no idea what's going on.

Any help would be appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Dawn\_Okem](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dawn_okem/32/58264_2.png) [@Dawn\_Okem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dawn_Okem)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-open-kibana-because-it-says-im-using-elasticsearch-6-2-4/147246/2 "2018-09-27T19:17:24Z")

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I had the same issue after running yum update to upgrade to version 6.4  
I had to restart elasticsearch service. This solved the issue for me.

hope it helps .

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-open-kibana-because-it-says-im-using-elasticsearch-6-2-4/147246/3 "2018-10-25T19:17:24Z")

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