# Delay starting Kibana until Elasticsearch fully up

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delay-starting-kibana-until-elasticsearch-fully-up/42580>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delay-starting-kibana-until-elasticsearch-fully-up/42580 "2016-02-24T11:32:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delay-starting-kibana-until-elasticsearch-fully-up/42580/4 "2016-02-25T20:08:54Z")

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You don't need to upgrade Logstash if you are using the HTTP protocol.  
So if you aren't then change and upgrade everything else 😃

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