# Accessing Kibana via SSH tunnel **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 11, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-via-ssh-tunnel/496 "2015-05-11T11:54:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Coelho](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flavio_coelho/32/44876_2.png) [@Flavio\_Coelho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Flavio_Coelho)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-via-ssh-tunnel/496/1 "2015-05-11T11:54:34Z")
I am trying to acces kibana from a remote machine through an SSH tunnel: ``` $ ssh -f user@elastichost -L 5601:elastichost:5601 -N ``` My remote browser just times out waiting for a response. Is there a reason why this should not work? ---
**Author:** ![karussell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karussell/32/4823_2.png) [@karussell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karussell)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-via-ssh-tunnel/496/2 "2015-05-11T13:46:59Z")
Do you mean local browser accessing the remote kibana? (or why 'remote browser'?) What succeeded for me is to use a tunnel for ElasticSearch for a local kibana. But I see no reason that a remote kibana should not work too. Regards, Peter ---
**Author:** ![melcocha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@melcocha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/melcocha)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-via-ssh-tunnel/496/3 "2015-05-15T13:51:35Z")
Did you find a solution? I am facing the same problem (access remote kibana from local browser) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-kibana-via-ssh-tunnel/496/4 "2017-07-06T14:19:27Z")