# Issue with launching Kibana 4.0.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-launching-kibana-4-0-2/39411>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 17, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-launching-kibana-4-0-2/39411 "2016-01-17T22:23:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Adam\_P](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_P)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-launching-kibana-4-0-2/39411/1 "2016-01-17T22:23:11Z")

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Greetings,

I'm following along the Official Logstash book (2013) and cannot get Kibana to launch. I get strange error messages:

{"@timestamp":"2016-01-14T02:06:28.943Z","level":"error","message":"unknown error","node\_env":"production","error":{"message":"unknown error","name":"Error","stack":"Error: unknown error\n at respond (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:237:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector. (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/node\_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at \_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)\n"}} {"@timestamp":"2016-01-14T02:06:28.947Z","level":"fatal","message":"unknown error","node\_env":"production","error":{"message":"unknown error","name":"Error","stack":"Error: unknown error\n at respond (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:237:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector. (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/opt/kibana-4.0.2-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/node\_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at \_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)\n"}}

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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:** [January 18, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-launching-kibana-4-0-2/39411/2 "2016-01-18T04:19:55Z")

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That is a quite old version, and many improvements and enhancements have been made since. If you are just starting out, you are probably better off using the latest version or Elasticsearch, Logstash and kibana.

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**Author:** ![Adam\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Adam\_P](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_P)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-launching-kibana-4-0-2/39411/3 "2016-01-18T14:48:19Z")

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Thank you. Yeah I ended up downloading a newer version of Kibana and it launched successfully.

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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, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-launching-kibana-4-0-2/39411/4 "2017-07-06T14:04:46Z")

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