# Elasticsearch and Kibana on two machines

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 10, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146 "2015-08-10T17:52:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DavidL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@DavidL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidL)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146/1 "2015-08-10T17:52:18Z")

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I installed elasticsearch(Along with logstash, and they worked as expected) on a virtual machine, and currently I am trying to view my data on Kibana from local. What is the setup I need to change in the configs?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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**Author:** ![JimCheetham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jimcheetham/32/44843_2.png) [@JimCheetham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JimCheetham)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146/2 "2015-08-10T21:38:51Z")

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In your kibana/config directory, you should find `kibana.yml` and in there identify the location of ElasticSearch :  
`elasticsearch_url: "http://192.168.122.222:9200"`

That allows the kibana webserver to find the ".kibana" index in ElasticSearch, where it stores all the user configuration (searches, dashboards, etc)

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**Author:** ![DavidL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@DavidL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidL)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146/3 "2015-08-11T15:46:23Z")

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Thank you sir i'll look into it!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146/4 "2017-07-06T14:15:03Z")

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