Wrong error: "Upgrade Required Your version of Elasticsearch is too old. Kibana requires Elasticsearch 0.90.9 or above."

[lathspell]

After installing logstash=1.4.2-1-2c0f5a1 I started logstash-web but did not notice that logstash itself was not running. When pointing my browser to the web interface, it just gave me the error:

Upgrade Required Your version of Elasticsearch is too old. Kibana requires Elasticsearch 0.90.9 or above.

This is wrong, I installed the Logstash Debian package which bundles Elasticsearch 1.1.1. As a newbie was puzzled and removed / downloaded / reinstalled the package several times until I noticed that there was a second error message:

Error Could not reach http://localhost:9200/_nodes. If you are using a proxy, ensure it is configured correctly

Maybe this could be improved so that it says "... If you use the bundled Elasticsearch, make sure the logstash agent daemon is running, if you use a dedicated Elasticsearch daemon, check if is in version 0.90.9 or higher!"

[jsvd]

This comes from Kibana 3.0.1, that ships with Logstash 1.4.2.

Logstash 1.5 will ship with Kibana 3.1.0 or 3.1.2 that improve this error handling. 3.1.2 actually has some troubleshooting tips that target this particular issue too.

So this will be improved in the next version, thanks for reporting.

[jianfengye]

I got the same error when i use logstash-1.4.2 ,

[dweinstein]

So what's the way to fix/get rid of this error?

[electrical]

When running Logstash with node protocol ( which is by default ) its part of the cluster.
Kibana sees that as an other node which has an to older version of ES.
if you run LS with the ES output set to protocol => transport it should solve the issue.

[jianfengye]

i use kibana 3.0.1 not the one which in logstash. the versions follow the download page:http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/elkdownloads/

[kervinpierre]

This is a misleading error. The problem is often with ElasticSearch CORS settings. See...
http://stackoverflow.com/a/26884367/16549

Pretty much add...

http.cors.allow-origin: "/.*/"
http.cors.enabled: true

To your elasticsearch.yml then restart.

[MarkMurphy]

http.cors.allow-origin: "/.*/"
http.cors.enabled: true

This worked for me. Added it to my elasticsearch.yml

[cfeller]

This is a misleading error. The problem is often with ElasticSearch CORS settings. See...
http://stackoverflow.com/a/26884367/16549

Misleading indeed - thank you Kervin.

[FatmaG]

Greatly misleading!! Thank you!

[smancke]

http.cors.allow-origin: "/.*/"
http.cors.enabled: true

Great, also solved it for me!!

[fb64]

Working also for me. Thanks :)

[Mindscope]

For me worked as follows:

http.cors.allow-origin: "*"
http.cors.enabled: true

[ckuharski-drc]

Worked for me. Thanks!

[spmkd]

Worked for me as well.

[enilu]

http.cors.allow-origin: "/.*/"
http.cors.enabled: true

me too,thank you!!!

[jordansissel]

For Logstash 1.5.0, we've moved all plugins to individual repositories, so I have moved this issue to logstash-plugins/logstash-output-elasticsearch#147. Let's continue the discussion there! :)