# Connecting from Host **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 27, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598 "2018-06-27T10:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marcos\_Felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcos_felix/32/32486_2.png) [@Marcos\_Felix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcos_Felix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/1 "2018-06-27T10:38:42Z")
Hello All, Yesterday took all day for me to set up ELK, it seems to be working because within my VM I can open the browser and go to Kibana web interface. Besides that, I don't know how else to check to see if it is actually working. I also downloaded and am using nginx. I shifted my focus to trying to connect to Kibana Web Interface/Logstash and Elasticsearch from my host. The VM I am connecting to is a vmware remote console, so it isn't installed locally. I already tried changing the nginx file, I tried changing network.host to 0.0.0.0 and many other. Any clues? ---
**Author:** ![pjanzen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pjanzen/32/13756_2.png) [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/2 "2018-06-27T10:59:36Z")
So you have installed elasticsearch, logstash and kibana. Now you need to send data to elasticsearch and you can use logstash to do that. I would suggest to go over [there results](https://www.google.com/search?q=logstash+to+elasticsearch+example&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b) and see if those point you in the direction you want to go.. ---
**Author:** ![Marcos\_Felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcos_felix/32/32486_2.png) [@Marcos\_Felix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcos_Felix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/3 "2018-06-27T12:42:22Z")
yes, I am not yet sure on Logstash but the files are there. What I want to do now is to be able to connect to ELK using my host machine instead of the VMware Console ---
**Author:** ![pjanzen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pjanzen/32/13756_2.png) [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/4 "2018-06-27T12:48:13Z")
ELK is the combo Elasticsearch, Logstash and kibana, You want to connect to kibana. Usually you have something like this. log sources -\> logstash -\> elasticsearch \<- kibana Try this: http://\:5601/ and see if you get a GUI ---
**Author:** ![Marcos\_Felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcos_felix/32/32486_2.png) [@Marcos\_Felix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcos_Felix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/5 "2018-06-27T13:02:48Z")
This morning I could connect to kibana web interface just fine within the VM, now it gave me admin credentials error - so I decided to start fresh. I tried that line and it didn't work ---
**Author:** ![Marcos\_Felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcos_felix/32/32486_2.png) [@Marcos\_Felix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcos_Felix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/6 "2018-06-27T14:13:49Z")
Also, when using NGINX what address do I put for VPS? I don't have one, is there another way to connect to a host without creating a VPS certificate? ---
**Author:** ![Marcos\_Felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcos_felix/32/32486_2.png) [@Marcos\_Felix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcos_Felix)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/7 "2018-06-29T12:14:37Z")
> [@pjanzen](#): > > s: http://\:5601 I got a prompted to enter my credentials, I did and it gave me a 403 cert error. Any clues? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-from-host/137598/8 "2018-07-27T12:14:39Z")
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