# Kibana startup issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-issue/113457>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 28, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-issue/113457 "2017-12-28T14:44:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![SJN8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@SJN8](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SJN8)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-issue/113457/1 "2017-12-28T14:44:24Z")

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I am getting this error while starting Kibana ,

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-12-28T14:31:46Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@6.1.1","error"],"pid":15969,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Your Kibana index is out of date, reset it or use the X-Pack upgrade assistant.","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}

below are the versions of ES and kibana

/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --version  
6.1.1  
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch --version  
Version: 6.1.1, Build: bd92e7f/2017-12-17T20:23:25.338Z, JVM: 1.8.0\_144

below in config file ,

/etc/kibana/kibana.yml

# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.

server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.

# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.

# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.

server.host: "ABC"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. This only affects

# the URLs generated by Kibana, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests

# to Kibana. This setting cannot end in a slash.

#server.basePath: ""

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.

#server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.

[server.name](http://server.name): "KIBANA"

# The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.url: "[http://ABC:9200](http://ABC:9200)"

# When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host

# setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host

# that connects to this Kibana instance.

elasticsearch.preserveHost: true

# Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and

# dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.

#kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.

kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

# If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide

# the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana

# index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which

# is proxied through the Kibana server.

#elasticsearch.username: "user"  
#elasticsearch.password: "pass"

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.

# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.

#server.ssl.enabled: false  
#server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt  
#server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.

# These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.

#elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt  
#elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate

# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.

#elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.

#elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of

# the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.

elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value

# must be a positive integer.

elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send _no_ client-side

# headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).

elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization]

# Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten

# by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.

#elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.

elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 0

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.

elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.

pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid

# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.

logging.dest: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.

#logging.silent: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.

#logging.quiet: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information

# and all requests.

logging.verbose: true

#The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch  
path.data: /var/data/kibana

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance

# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.

ops.interval: 5000

# The default locale. This locale can be used in certain circumstances to substitute any missing

# translations.

#i18n.defaultLocale: "en"

Can someone plz help on this .

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**Author:** ![SJN8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@SJN8](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SJN8)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-issue/113457/2 "2017-12-28T17:42:18Z")

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resolved by index migration

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-issue/113457/3 "2017-12-28T17:58:22Z")

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For anyone else that comes across this, you will need to follow the manual migration guide: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.0/migrating-6.0-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.0/migrating-6.0-index.html)

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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:** [January 25, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-issue/113457/4 "2018-01-25T17:58:36Z")

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