# Error while trying to connect elastic search with curator
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-trying-to-connect-elastic-search-with-curator/199269
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-trying-to-connect-elastic-search-with-curator/199269 "2019-09-12T14:16:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Prafull](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prafull)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-trying-to-connect-elastic-search-with-curator/199269/1 "2019-09-12T14:16:24Z")
Hi ,
"I have installed curator using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch-curator"
When i am trying to run the following command
**curator --dry-run snapshot.yml --config curator.yml**. Getting below error.
2019-09-12 14:12:51,218 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "snapshot"
2019-09-12 14:12:51,222 ERROR Elasticsearch version 7.3.1 incompatible with this version of Curator (5.2.0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/curator", line 11, in
load\_entry\_point('elasticsearch-curator==5.2.0', 'console\_scripts', 'curator')()
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in **call**
return self.main(\*args, \*\*kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, \*\*ctx.params)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
return callback(\*args, \*\*kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/curator/cli.py", line 211, in cli
run(config, action\_file, dry\_run)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/curator/cli.py", line 158, in run
client = get\_client(\*\*client\_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/curator/utils.py", line 800, in get\_client
'Error: {0}'.format(e)
elasticsearch.exceptions.ElasticsearchException: Unable to create client connection to Elasticsearch. Error: Elasticsearch version 7.3.1 incompatible with this version of Curator (5.2.0)
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-trying-to-connect-elastic-search-with-curator/199269/2 "2019-09-12T14:35:44Z")
You're using an old version of Curator which does not support ES 7.x, and suffers from a long-since-fixed version reporting bug.
Upgrade to Curator 5.7.6 to correct this. I'm not sure which repository still has 5.2.0, but it's not the [official Curator](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.7/apt-repository.html) repository.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-trying-to-connect-elastic-search-with-curator/199269/3 "2019-10-10T14:35:45Z")
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