# Kibana not starting after upgrade to version 15.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-version-15-3/369472>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 26, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-version-15-3/369472 "2024-10-26T13:31:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![alrubaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@alrubaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alrubaa)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-version-15-3/369472/1 "2024-10-26T13:31:29Z")

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I am running a couple of Elastic clusters, both were running 8.13.2. Then I upgraded the larger cluster to version 15.3 using a rolling upgrade, switched all kibana nodes off and then upgraded kibana and all went well. Then I upgraded the smaller cluster, turned off shard allocation, upgraded the elastic nodes, all went well. Then I upgraded kibana, unfortunately I forgot to turn shards allocation on before I upgraded kibana. I have 2 kibana nodes, I upgraded the first one only while the second is off. Now when I go to Kibana in the browser I get Kibana server is not ready yet. I checked the .kibana alias it is pointing to .kibana\_8.8.0\_001 and the .kibana\_task\_manager pointing to .kibana\_task\_manager\_8.7.0\_001. However, when I check the indices, I only have .kibana\_7.17.0\_001, but I have 3 .kibana\_task\_manager indices; .kibana\_task\_manager\_7.12.0\_001, .kibana\_task\_manager\_7.15.1\_001,.kibana\_task\_manager\_7.17.0\_001. I have a snapshot backup, but I am not able to have kibana start. I could not delete the .kibana\_task\_manager indices from the command line like I used to do in the old days if kibana migration fails. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.  
AJ

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**Author:** ![alrubaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@alrubaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alrubaa)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-version-15-3/369472/2 "2024-10-28T17:57:28Z")

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After going through log files, and indices through command line I gave up, nothing worked. So I created a new cluster with default settings running 8.13.0 and restored from a snapshot. A full restore failed and I could not access Kibana again, so I restored the indices and Kiabana indices through:

```auto
POST _snapshot/<my_repository>/<my_snapshot>/_restore
{
  "indices": "-*", 
  "feature_states": ["kibana"]
}

```

All worked. I only lost the users, which was not an issue for me.