# Kibana upgrade - 8.16.1 plugin error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-upgrade-8-16-1-plugin-error/374590>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 15, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-upgrade-8-16-1-plugin-error/374590 "2025-02-15T16:26:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-upgrade-8-16-1-plugin-error/374590/1 "2025-02-15T16:26:23Z")

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I upgraded kibana and now getting this everytime I try to load dashboard. once I clear the session it works. how do I fix this? I don't need this observabilityAIAssistant. I would like to disable this as all user is getting this.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/c/2c7ddc60f1b5721b80409f4a23e06beb3d980c00.png)

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-upgrade-8-16-1-plugin-error/374590/2 "2025-02-15T22:09:18Z")

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I see following message in kibana log. eventhough I have following in kibana.yml

`xpack.observabilityAIAssistant.enabled: false`

```auto
[2025-02-15T10:09:10.318-06:00][INFO][plugins.elasticAssistant.service] Installing component template .kibana-elastic-ai-assistant-component-template-knowledge-base
[2025-02-15T10:09:10.771-06:00][INFO][plugins.ecsDataQualityDashboard] Updating data streams - .kibana-data-quality-dashboard-results-*
[2025-02-15T10:09:10.991-06:00][INFO][plugins.slo] Installing SLO index template [.slo-observability.summary]
[2025-02-15T10:09:11.783-06:00][INFO][plugins.elasticAssistant.service] Installing index template .kibana-elastic-ai-assistant-index-template-knowledge-base
[2025-02-15T10:09:15.000-06:00][INFO][plugins.elasticAssistant.service] Updating data streams - .kibana-elastic-ai-assistant-knowledge-base-*
[2025-02-15T10:09:15.117-06:00][WARN][plugins.elasticAssistant.service] Error initializing AI assistant resources: Platinum, Enterprise or trial license needed

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-upgrade-8-16-1-plugin-error/374590/3 "2025-02-17T15:22:39Z")

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I have not found anything related to this issue yet. Please let me know if anyone has come across such problem.

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-upgrade-8-16-1-plugin-error/374590/4 "2025-02-19T20:00:36Z")

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only thing I can tell difference is port 5601 is coming via haproxy.  
is there known bug in 8.16 for it?