{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/4986","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/4986/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/4986/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/4986/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4986","id":107471612,"number":4986,"title":"Kibana startup behaviours","user":{"login":"huntc","id":694893,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/694893?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc","html_url":"https://github.com/huntc","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/huntc/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-09-21T09:06:45Z","updated_at":"2015-09-21T14:46:26Z","closed_at":"2015-09-21T14:46:26Z","body":"It'd be great to see that Kibana not requiring Elasticsearch to be running on startup. When running in a distributed manner, there are no guarantees as to the order of startup between Kibana and Elasticsearch, or even whether Elasticsearch starts up successfully.\r\n\r\nIf Kibana could startup and tolerate that Elasticsearch is unavailable then that'd be great. We presently have to work around this issue by suspending the Kibana startup until Elasticsearch is ready. This approach is fraught given that Elasticsearch could become unavailable post the check we make and up to Kibana's startup.\r\n\r\nIn addition, and may be related, it'd be great for Kibana to receive a configuration that is applied once it connects to Kibana i.e. the configuration of the default index etc. This is as opposed to requiring a user to submit this configuration manually and interactively the first time Kibana starts up."}}