# Dockerized Kibana not able to connect to elasticsearch nodes, unable to retrieve connection
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576 "2020-07-17T04:44:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Bhanu\_Praveen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Praveen)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/1 "2020-07-17T04:44:27Z")
Hello,
I am having a complete elastic stack in docker and below is my docker-compose.yml.
```
version: '3.2'
services:
elasticsearch:
build:
context: elasticsearch/
args:
ELK_VERSION: $ELK_VERSION
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ./elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml
target: /usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml
read_only: true
- type: volume
source: elasticsearch
target: /usr/share/elasticsearch/data
#Store all ES data from target location to elasticsearch volume
ports:
- "9200:9200"
- "9300:9300"
container_name: elasticsearch
environment:
ES_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx2g -Xms2g"
discovery.type: single-node
networks:
- elk
logstash:
build:
context: logstash/
args:
ELK_VERSION: $ELK_VERSION
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ./logstash/config/
target: /usr/share/logstash/config/
read_only: true
- type: bind
source: ./logstash/pipeline
target: /usr/share/logstash/pipeline
read_only: true
ports:
- "5000:5000/tcp"
- "5000:5000/udp"
- "9600:9600"
environment:
LS_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx256m -Xms256m"
networks:
- elk
depends_on:
- elasticsearch
kibana:
build:
context: kibana/
args:
ELK_VERSION: $ELK_VERSION
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ./kibana/config/kibana.yml
target: /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml
read_only: true
environment:
- ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200
ports:
- "5601:5601"
networks:
- elk
depends_on:
- elasticsearch
networks:
elk:
driver: bridge
volumes:
elasticsearch:
```
docker logs error:
```
kibana_1 | {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-07-17T04:40:40Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":6,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://elasticsearch:9200/"}
kibana_1 | {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-07-17T04:40:40Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":6,"message":"No living connections"}
```
Below is my kibana.yml
```
server.name: kibana
server.host: 0.0.0.0
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://elasticsearch:9200"]
monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true
elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 120000
monitoring.enabled: false
## X-Pack security credentials
#
elasticsearch.username: elastic
elasticsearch.password: password@123
```
I check docker network and both the containers are communicating, logged into kibana container and ping ealsticsearch node, able to get response.
As said in few places, tried all options like passing elasticsearch\_hosts,elasticsearch\_url in docker-compose. Still no luck. The same set-up was working on my local instance. This i am trying in production server. Kindly throw some solution?
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### Author:  [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/2 "2020-07-20T14:36:14Z")
@Bhanu_Praveen could you try to replace in your `docker-compose.yml` the following `ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200` by `ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://elasticsearch:9200` ?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Bhanu\_Praveen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Praveen)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/3 "2020-07-21T09:13:07Z")
> [@Bhanu\_Praveen](#):
>
> ```auto
> environment:
> - ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200
>
> ```
Tried. still same issue..
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### Author:  [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/4 "2020-07-21T12:58:20Z")
@Bhanu_Praveen could you please try to follow our guide that you can find here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-get-started/current/get-started-docker.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-get-started/current/get-started-docker.html)
Probably the only thing you will want to change would be the discovery\_type.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Bhanu\_Praveen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Praveen)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/5 "2020-07-21T13:20:19Z")
> [@tiagocosta](#):
>
> discovery\_type
If i comment discovery\_type, still the same issue
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### Author:  [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/6 "2020-07-21T16:30:21Z")
@Bhanu_Praveen could you please double check your configuration with the one suggested in the documentation I linked above? Let me know if after replicating what we suggest you still experience any problem.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Bhanu\_Praveen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Praveen)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/7 "2020-07-22T03:08:20Z")
Hi tiago,
I followed above document with initial set-up mentioned. When i try to bring up` docker-compose up` i see same issue as below:
```
kib01 | {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-07-22T03:03:48Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":6,"message":"No living connections"}
kib01 | {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-07-22T03:03:50Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":6,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://es01:9200/"}
```
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/8 "2020-07-22T21:24:22Z")
I was able to get this working by updating a few things, honestly not sure what it is what did it though.
```auto
version: '3.2'
services:
elasticsearch:
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.8.0
environment:
ES_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx2g -Xms2g"
ulimits:
memlock:
soft: -1
hard: -1
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ./elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml
target: /usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml
read_only: true
- type: volume
source: elasticsearch
target: /usr/share/elasticsearch/data
ports:
- "9200:9200"
- "9300:9300"
networks:
- elastic
kibana:
image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.8.0
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ./kibana/config
target: /usr/share/kibana/config
read_only: true
ports:
- "5601:5601"
networks:
- elastic
depends_on:
- elasticsearch
networks:
elastic:
driver: bridge
volumes:
elasticsearch:
driver: local
```
I removed all the environment settings and moved them to their associated config, since you're mounting those:
`kibana/config/kibana.yml`:
```auto
server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.hosts: http://elasticsearch:9200
```
`elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml`:
```auto
---
## Default Elasticsearch configuration from elasticsearch-docker.
## from https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-docker/blob/master/build/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
#
cluster.name: "docker-cluster"
network.host: 0.0.0.0
# minimum_master_nodes need to be explicitly set when bound on a public IP
# set to 1 to allow single node clusters
# Details: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/17288
discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 1
## Use single node discovery in order to disable production mode and avoid bootstrap checks
## see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/bootstrap-checks.html
#
discovery.type: single-node
## X-Pack settings
## see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-xpack.html
#
xpack.license.self_generated.type: trial
```
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### Author:  [@Bhanu\_Praveen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Praveen)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/9 "2020-07-23T06:28:21Z")
> [@tylersmalley](#):
>
> ```auto
> ## Use single node discovery in order to disable production mode and avoid bootstrap checks
> ## see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/bootstrap-checks.html
> #
> discovery.type: single-node
>
> ```
Hello tylers,
In my dev environment, everything working fine. I am trying to bring it up on production server, thats when the connectivity issue occurs. I tried same as you mentioned. Still issue exists. Thanks
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/10 "2020-07-23T15:46:44Z")
If it's working for you locally, but not in another environment that leads me to believe it's environment related. Or, you are using a different configuration. What differences are there between what you are doing that is working, to what is not?
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### Author:  [@Bhanu\_Praveen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Praveen)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/11 "2020-07-24T18:02:43Z")
Hi tylers,
ya, got the issue fixed. Docker is picking IPv6 in production server which is not getting exposed all those ports. Enabled IPv4 and started working fine. Thanks for your time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dockerized-kibana-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-nodes-unable-to-retrieve-connection/241576/12 "2020-08-21T18:03:52Z")
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