# Exiting: 1 error: error making http request:

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-error-making-http-request/211669>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-error-making-http-request/211669 "2019-12-12T14:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![probson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@probson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/probson)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-error-making-http-request/211669/1 "2019-12-12T14:30:15Z")

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I am setting up metricbeat on a node with Kibana and Elasticsearch (coordinator role)  
I have setup the kibana portion and it injected the dashboards but at the end of the run it still fails with

Exiting: 1 error: error making http request: Get [http://localhost:5601/api/status:](http://localhost:5601/api/status:) dial tcp 127.0.0.1:5601: connect: connection refused

ive setup the metricbeat.yml as (ive changed a few values)  
setup.kibana:

# Kibana Host

host: "[es-kibana-node2.domain.domain.co.uk](http://es-kibana-node2.domain.domain.co.uk)"  
protocol: "https"  
ssl.enabled: true  
ssl.certificate\_authorities: ["/etc/kibana/certs/ca.crt"]  
ssl.key: /etc/kibana/certs/es-kibana-node2.key  
ssl.certificate: /etc/kibana/certs/es-kibana-node2.crt

Despite this, it still keeps trying [http://127.0.0.1:5601](http://127.0.0.1:5601)

Any suggestions as to why it is ignoring the host: or if i'm missing a setting?

from kibana.yml

server.name: "es-kibana-node2"  
server.host: "[es-kibana-node2.domain.domain.co.uk](http://es-kibana-node2.domain.domain.co.uk)"

Thanks  
Phil

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**Author:** ![probson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@probson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/probson)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-error-making-http-request/211669/2 "2019-12-12T20:10:30Z")

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found its the settings in the kibana-xpack.yml that was causing this headache

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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:** [January 9, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-error-making-http-request/211669/3 "2020-01-09T20:11:54Z")

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