# Elastic search is not available externally through azure load balancer after VM restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-is-not-available-externally-through-azure-load-balancer-after-vm-restart/56497>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 27, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-is-not-available-externally-through-azure-load-balancer-after-vm-restart/56497 "2016-07-27T09:47:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sheeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@sheeba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sheeba)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-is-not-available-externally-through-azure-load-balancer-after-vm-restart/56497/1 "2016-07-27T09:47:51Z")

</div>

We have installed elastic search through azure marketplace.After restarting data node VM, elastic search is not able to connect from external system via load balancer URL. we verified elastic search is running inside VM.

The port 9200 is allowed in firewall, when checked through ufw command.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-is-not-available-externally-through-azure-load-balancer-after-vm-restart/56497/2 "2017-07-05T22:32:37Z")

</div>