Hi @charleseblack126 welcome to the community
I suspect you did a basic / default install
There are some important concept that you really need to understand / take a look at with respect to Elasticsearch ...by default elasticsearch only binds to localhost i.e. it is not reachable from the network
Take a look at This post that I wrote up a while ago...
In short, Elastic forces you to make a very conscious decision to attach your cluster to the network... as soon as you do you should be thinking about auth / auth data security etc. With the proper configuration you can dev / test etc , but you need to set some settings and you should read about them first... but in no way do we recommend putting production data in an unsecured cluster.