# Can't connect to elasticsearch with kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 20, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623 "2020-05-20T22:02:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/1 "2020-05-20T22:02:18Z")

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I just installed elasticsearch and kibana but when i try to start kibana i get this error  
"Error: [mapper\_parsing\_exception] No handler for type [flattened] declared on field [state]".  
How do i fix this?

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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:** [May 20, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/2 "2020-05-20T22:42:28Z")

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Welcome! 😃

Is there anything in your Elasticsearch logs at that time that might be related?

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/3 "2020-05-20T23:00:12Z")

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There's also this log  
" [warning][license][xpack] License information from the X-Pack plugin could not be obtained from Elasticsearch for the [data] cluster. [invalid\_index\_name\_exception] Invalid index name [_xpack]_".

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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:** [May 20, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/4 "2020-05-20T23:12:35Z")

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What version of the stack are you using?

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/5 "2020-05-20T23:23:24Z")

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Version 7.7

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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:** [May 20, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/6 "2020-05-20T23:26:12Z")

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What documentation did you follow to install it?

Can you call the `GET /_license` API?

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/7 "2020-05-20T23:40:39Z")

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```
"license" : {
"status" : "active",
"uid" : "",
"type" : "basic",
"issue_date" : "2020-05-20T20:32:13.487Z",
"issue_date_in_millis" : 1590006733487,
"max_nodes" : 1000,
"issued_to" : "elasticsearch",
"issuer" : "elasticsearch",
"start_date_in_millis" : -1

```

}

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/8 "2020-05-21T07:33:19Z")

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i followed the steps on the elasticsearch website to install it.

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/9 "2020-05-22T06:08:23Z")

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I still haven't been able to get it to work. Is there nothing i can do?

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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:** [May 25, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/10 "2020-05-25T00:09:15Z")

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Did you download the default distributions of both Kibana and Elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Flame](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/phoenix_flame/32/46958_2.png) [@Phoenix\_Flame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phoenix_Flame)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/11 "2020-05-26T12:23:48Z")

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yes i did, i'm also able to connect to my elasticsearch from kibana on another computer.

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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 23, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-kibana/233623/12 "2020-06-23T12:23:52Z")

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