# Kibana ES incomptibility

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 10, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134 "2016-07-10T14:21:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![amitak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amitak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amitak)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/1 "2016-07-10T14:21:49Z")

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Hi,  
I have installed ES v5.0.0-alpha4 and Kibana 4.5.2 on my windows 10 machine.

I get following error. [error][status][plugin:elasticsearch] Status changed from yellow to red - This version of Kibana requires Elasticsearch ^2.3.0 on all nodes. I found the following incompatible nodes in your cluster: Elasticsearch v5.0.0-alpha4 @ 127.0.0.1:9200 (127.0.0.1)

I do have ES ^2.3. Not sure why Kibana is throwing error. Please help.

Regards,  
Amit

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/2 "2016-07-10T15:23:08Z")

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But... you just said you installed ES 5.0.0-alpha4, and then you said you're running ES 2.3. Which one is it?

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### Author: ![amitak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amitak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amitak)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/3 "2016-07-10T15:38:24Z")

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I have ES v5.0.0-alpha4 .

Error messages talks about having version greater that 2.3.0. Which I already have.

Regards,  
Amit

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/4 "2016-07-10T15:47:05Z")

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The error message doesn't say "greater than 2.3.0". I'd assume they use the [NPM versioning notation](https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/semver#caret-ranges-123-025-004), in which case ^2.3.0 means "at least 2.3.0 but less than 3.0.0".

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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: [July 10, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/5 "2016-07-10T22:49:40Z")

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ES 5 is only compatible with KB 5.

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### Author: ![amitak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amitak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amitak)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/6 "2016-07-17T17:10:43Z")

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Thanks a ton. This helped in resolving the issue.

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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, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-es-incomptibility/55134/7 "2017-07-06T13:46:14Z")

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