# Accessing kibana remotely

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 2, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064 "2017-06-02T10:25:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@joshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshi)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064/1 "2017-06-02T10:25:29Z")

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I've setup an ELK stack (versions 5.4) running on an ubuntu 17.04 vm. This is hosted in azure. Aside from the Azure network security group settings, what do I need to do to enable connections to kibana via a browser over the internet?

So far I have run the command:

sudo ufw allow 5601

And edited kibana.yml to change server.host from localhost to the public IP address of my azure vm.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064/2 "2017-06-02T10:48:04Z")

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That should be it, does it not work?

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**Author:** ![joshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@joshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshi)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064/3 "2017-06-02T10:54:43Z")

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yes - I'm unable to browse to the url

publicIP:5601

is it safe to assume it's an issue on the azure settings?

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**Author:** ![joshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@joshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshi)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064/4 "2017-06-02T13:08:00Z")

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fixed it - now able to connect. I found [this guide](https://logz.io/blog/install-elk-stack-azure/) whic recommends setting server.host to "0.0.0.0" in the kibana.yml file.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-remotely/88064/5 "2017-06-30T13:08:07Z")

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