# Kibana 4.0 start fails with index\_not\_found\_exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199 "2019-01-29T15:13:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![suraj.natarajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@suraj.natarajan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suraj.natarajan)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199/1 "2019-01-29T15:13:14Z")

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Settting up Elasticsearch 2.3 with Kibana 4.0. Elasticsearch is up and running, but kibana start fails with index\_not\_found\_exception.

Please provide inputs to troubleshoot/fix this issue

[root@ec2-52-54-92-0 config]# ../bin/kibana  
{"@timestamp":"2019-01-29T15:08:44.628Z","level":"fatal","message":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"index\_not\_found\_exception","reason":"no such index","resource.type":"index\_or\_alias","resource.id":".kibana","index":".kibana"}],"type":"index\_not\_found\_exception","reason":"no such index","resource.type":"index\_or\_alias","resource.id":".kibana","index":".kibana"},"node\_env":"production","error":{"message":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"index\_not\_found\_exception","reason":"no such index","resource.type":"index\_or\_alias","resource.id":".kibana","index":".kibana"}],"type":"index\_not\_found\_exception","reason":"no such index","resource.type":"index\_or\_alias","resource.id":".kibana","index":".kibana"},"name":"Error","stack":"Error: [object Object]\n at respond (/root/kibana-4.0.0-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:235:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/root/kibana-4.0.0-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector. (/root/kibana-4.0.0-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/root/kibana-4.0.0-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"}}  
[1]+ Exit 1 ../bin/kibana

Elasticsearch works fine

[root@ec2-52-54-92-0 config]# curl [http://ec2-18-212-75-236.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9200/](http://ec2-18-212-75-236.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9200/)  
{  
"name" : "Mentor",  
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch",  
"version" : {  
"number" : "2.3.4",  
"build\_hash" : "e455fd0c13dceca8dbbdbb1665d068ae55dabe3f",  
"build\_timestamp" : "2016-06-30T11:24:31Z",  
"build\_snapshot" : false,  
"lucene\_version" : "5.5.0"  
},  
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"  
}  
[root@ec2-52-54-92-0 config]#

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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 29, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199/2 "2019-01-29T16:04:30Z")

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I think you should be using Kibana 4.5 with ES 2.3, so that might be part of the problem. Have not used that old version in a very long time though, so will not be able to help much more than that.

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**Author:** ![suraj.natarajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@suraj.natarajan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suraj.natarajan)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199/3 "2019-01-29T16:26:47Z")

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Thank you christian, Will test with Kibana 4.5  
Also please let me know which logstash version needs to be used with ES 2.3

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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 29, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199/4 "2019-01-29T18:42:22Z")

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Those versions are quite old and have been unsupported for quite a while, so I do not remember. I would recommend looking at the [support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility) for this. I would also recommend upgrading.

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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:** [February 26, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-0-start-fails-with-index-not-found-exception/166199/5 "2019-02-26T18:42:25Z")

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