# Connect Kibana to Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch/118111>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch/118111 "2018-02-01T22:06:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Xi\_Zhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f08c70/32.png) [@Xi\_Zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Xi_Zhu)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch/118111/1 "2018-02-01T22:06:27Z")

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Hi,

I can get the right response by curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/?pretty'

```
{
  "name" : "RcPwG_M",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid" : "L6U8oE0pRdqHSMcmY6BshQ",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "6.1.3",
    "build_hash" : "af51318",
    "build_date" : "2018-01-26T18:22:55.523Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "7.1.0",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "5.6.0",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "5.0.0"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

```

However, I encountered the problem when connecting Kibana to Elasticsearch.

```
  log [22:02:21.656] [info][status][plugin:kibana@6.1.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log [22:02:21.685] [info][status][plugin:elasticsearch@6.1.3] Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch
  log [22:02:21.705] [info][status][plugin:console@6.1.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log [22:02:21.717] [info][status][plugin:metrics@6.1.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log [22:02:21.824] [info][status][plugin:timelion@6.1.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log [22:02:21.827] [info][listening] Server running at http://localhost:5601
  log [22:02:22.706] [error][admin][elasticsearch] Request error, retrying
HEAD https://localhost:9200/ => connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:9200
  log [22:02:23.708] [warning][admin][elasticsearch] Unable to revive connection: https://localhost:9200/
  log [22:02:23.712] [warning][admin][elasticsearch] No living connections
  log [22:02:23.714] [error][status][plugin:elasticsearch@6.1.3] Status changed from yellow to red - Unable to connect to Elasticsearch at https://localhost:9200.
  log [22:02:27.219] [warning][admin][elasticsearch] Unable to revive connection: https://localhost:9200/
  log [22:02:27.219] [warning][admin][elasticsearch] No living connections

```

All the configuration remain default. Does any have an idea? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![a5a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch/118111/2 "2018-02-02T20:03:42Z")

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Are you sure elasticsearch is running on localhost:9200?

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**Author:** ![Shailesh\_Vaidya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shailesh_vaidya/32/24144_2.png) [@Shailesh\_Vaidya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shailesh_Vaidya)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch/118111/3 "2018-02-03T21:28:06Z")

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Hello,

You can try below things,

1.Check if "telnet localhost 9200" is working fine.  
2.Have you installed x-pack. In that case check if kibana.yml is updated with required credentials and other config parameters.

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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:** [March 3, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch/118111/4 "2018-03-03T21:28:20Z")

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