# ELK+ Shield + Kafka and firewall configuration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 10, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700 "2016-08-10T11:51:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vienodp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vienodp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vienodp)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700/1 "2016-08-10T11:51:28Z")

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Hi ,

What all ports we need to configure/open on the firewall for ELK , Shield , filebeat and Kafka.  
This is the requirement for production environment.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700/2 "2016-08-10T21:12:44Z")

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Depends on what you have setup.

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**Author:** ![vienodp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vienodp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vienodp)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700/3 "2016-08-11T03:15:24Z")

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I have setup everything I mentioned in the test environment but there is no firewall.  
So I want to know what ports all these tools uses to communicate with each other.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700/4 "2016-08-11T05:32:15Z")

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Have you looked at the docs and the configs?  
We don't know if you decided to make a port change from the defaults after all.

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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 5, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-shield-kafka-and-firewall-configuration/57700/5 "2017-07-05T22:28:37Z")

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