# 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:** ![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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