# Compatibility with Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714 "2018-12-06T10:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![igorc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igorc/32/38507_2.png) [@igorc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/igorc)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714/1 "2018-12-06T10:59:21Z")

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Hi,

Just wonder if Kibana 6.5 is compatible with Elasticsearch 6.3? Is it expected to work or am I going to hit some issues?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714/2 "2018-12-06T11:09:16Z")

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If you look at the [support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility) you should always run the same versions of Kibana and Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![igorc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igorc/32/38507_2.png) [@igorc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/igorc)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714/3 "2018-12-06T11:34:16Z")

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Saw that, it also says that Filebeat and Logstash 6.5 are compatible with ES/Kibana 6.3 but after importing the FIlebeat 6.5 template and Dashboards I get errors in Kibana 6.3. For instance I get "Could not locate that index-pattern-field (id: system.syslog.hostname)" for the Syslog Dashboard so not sure if that compatibility matrix can be trusted 😉

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714/4 "2018-12-06T11:47:32Z")

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You should generally always run the same version across the stack.

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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:** [January 3, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compatibility-with-elasticsearch/159714/5 "2019-01-03T11:47:32Z")

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