my apologies, please see the below tailed log results
root@mothership:/etc/elasticsearch# tail -f /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log
[2019-07-25T12:04:29,460][INFO ][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks ] [mothership] bound or publishing to a non-loopback address, enforcing bootstrap checks
[2019-07-25T12:04:29,491][INFO ][o.e.c.c.Coordinator ] [mothership] cluster UUID [PpDDbUeUQo2LjnUphiJM-w]
[2019-07-25T12:04:29,589][INFO ][o.e.c.s.MasterService ] [mothership] elected-as-master ([1] nodes joined)[{mothership}{AJTAdrVIQ2mYStSJt4lDqQ}{fTxVY3lVRM6bZrMa6UKt4A}{10.68.70.151}{10.68.70.151:9300}{ml.machine_memory=16455876608, xpack.installed=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20} elect leader, _BECOME_MASTER_TASK_, _FINISH_ELECTION_], term: 6, version: 95, reason: master node changed {previous [], current [{mothership}{AJTAdrVIQ2mYStSJt4lDqQ}{fTxVY3lVRM6bZrMa6UKt4A}{10.68.70.151}{10.68.70.151:9300}{ml.machine_memory=16455876608, xpack.installed=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]}
[2019-07-25T12:04:29,755][INFO ][o.e.c.s.ClusterApplierService] [mothership] master node changed {previous [], current [{mothership}{AJTAdrVIQ2mYStSJt4lDqQ}{fTxVY3lVRM6bZrMa6UKt4A}{10.68.70.151}{10.68.70.151:9300}{ml.machine_memory=16455876608, xpack.installed=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]}, term: 6, version: 95, reason: Publication{term=6, version=95}
[2019-07-25T12:04:29,997][INFO ][o.e.h.AbstractHttpServerTransport] [mothership] publish_address {10.68.70.151:9200}, bound_addresses {[::]:9200}
[2019-07-25T12:04:29,998][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [mothership] started
[2019-07-25T12:04:30,654][INFO ][o.e.l.LicenseService ] [mothership] license [2c9dda8f-8420-410b-b308-fe1baaf4167c] mode [basic] - valid
[2019-07-25T12:04:30,666][INFO ][o.e.g.GatewayService ] [mothership] recovered [4] indices into cluster_state
[2019-07-25T12:04:31,865][INFO ][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [mothership] Cluster health status changed from [RED] to [YELLOW] (reason: [shards started [[filebeat-7.2.0-2019.07.19-000001][0], [.kibana_1][0], [metricbeat-7.2.0-2019.07.19-000001][0]] ...]).
[2019-07-25T12:04:32,017][INFO ][o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService] [mothership] adding template [.management-beats] for index patterns [.management-beats]
then if i look for listening kibana port - i get the following:
root@mothership:/etc/elasticsearch# netstat -a -n | grep tcp | grep 5601
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5601 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
but i am unable to browse to the front end page.. im going backwards now. .
kibana service logs show the following more recent logs.
Jul 25 12:04:23 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:23Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://localhost:9200/"}
Jul 25 12:04:23 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:23Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"No living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:23 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:23Z","tags":["warning","task_manager"],"pid":15088,"message":"PollError No Living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:24 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:24Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://localhost:9200/"}
Jul 25 12:04:24 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:24Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"No living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:26 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:26Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://localhost:9200/"}
Jul 25 12:04:26 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:26Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"No living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:26 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:26Z","tags":["warning","task_manager"],"pid":15088,"message":"PollError No Living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:26 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:26Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://localhost:9200/"}
Jul 25 12:04:26 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:26Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"No living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:29 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:29Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://localhost:9200/"}
Jul 25 12:04:29 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:29Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"No living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:29 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:29Z","tags":["warning","task_manager"],"pid":15088,"message":"PollError No Living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:29 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:29Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://localhost:9200/"}
Jul 25 12:04:29 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:29Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":15088,"message":"No living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:31 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:31Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@7.2.0","info"],"pid":15088,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from red to green - Ready","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"No Living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:32 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:32Z","tags":["license","info","xpack"],"pid":15088,"message":"Imported license information from Elasticsearch for the [data] cluster: mode: basic | status: active"}
Jul 25 12:04:32 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:32Z","tags":["status","plugin:xpack_main@7.2.0","info"],"pid":15088,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from red to green - Ready","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"No Living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:32 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:32Z","tags":["status","plugin:graph@7.2.0","info"],"pid":15088,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from red to green - Ready","prevState":"red","prevMsg":"No Living connections"}
Jul 25 12:04:32 mothership kibana[15088]: {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-25T12:04:32Z","tags":}