Thanks for discovering this @dadoonet ! I confirm the behavior.

Steps to reproduce: Without Kibana running, run Metricbeat with a config which includes

setup.dashboards.enabled: true
setup.dashboards.retry.enabled: true

Which, afaik, should retry the process of importing dashboards to Kibana once every second.

I have seen that this line tries to connects to Kibana before the retry loop happens deep inside this line

Expected behavior

The expected behavior is that Metricbeat stays running trying to connect to Kibana. Starting a Kibana instance while Metricbeat is running should allow Metricbeat break the retry loop and load the dashboards.

Current behavior

The code tries to connect to Kibana first so it crashes before entering the retry loop.