# Index\_not\_found\_exception when trying to connect to ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-trying-to-connect-to-es/34719>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 16, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-trying-to-connect-to-es/34719 "2015-11-16T18:52:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jgerry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jgerry/32/5957_2.png) [@jgerry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgerry)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-trying-to-connect-to-es/34719/1 "2015-11-16T18:52:00Z")

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I'm having some trouble getting Kibana 4 working with a fresh ES 2.0 install. Network is good, I get a clean connection to ES via curl, but Kibana is throwing an index\_not\_found\_exception, I would expect it would try to create the index. elasticsearch\_url in kibana.yml is correct (tested with curl). Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![jgerry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jgerry/32/5957_2.png) [@jgerry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgerry)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-trying-to-connect-to-es/34719/2 "2015-11-16T20:16:53Z")

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User error on my part. My Chef cookbook was installing 4.0.0 instead of 4.2.1. Problem solved. 😄

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-trying-to-connect-to-es/34719/3 "2017-07-06T14:08:59Z")

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