Access Kibana outside the windows server it is running on?

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hi,

I am trying to access Kibana outside of the Windows server it is running on. I am able to access Marvel with serverName:9200/_plugin/marvel, but I can't seem to access Kibana outside of the windows server it is running on. It´s running on localhost:5601 locally just fine, but outside of the server it´s not responding to serverName:5601. Do I need to do something on the server to have able to communicate out?

M.

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Unless you've configured Kibana to listen on the loopback interface you should be fine. Of course, there might be a firewall rules that blocks the access.

"Not responding to serverName:5601" means what, connection refused?

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Connection refused, yes.

Does it mean that it might be a firewall blocking the port?

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Yes, that's certainly a possibility. I'd also check with netstat -an that Kibana is actually listening on non-loopback interfaces.

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127.0.0.1:5601 is in listening state with 0.0.0.0:0 under Foreign Address. That seem ok, does it not?

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No, I would've expected to see 0.0.0.0:5601 as the local address, or the address of the non-loopback interface.

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Hmm. And how do I solve that?

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I would expect there to be a configuration option to choose what it should listen on. It should definitely default to 0.0.0.0, but it's something to double-check.

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