# External URLs are not enabled for VegaLite

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-are-not-enabled-for-vegalite/133714>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-are-not-enabled-for-vegalite/133714 "2018-05-29T15:40:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![denismaciel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/denismaciel/32/31555_2.png) [@denismaciel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/denismaciel)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-are-not-enabled-for-vegalite/133714/1 "2018-05-29T15:40:44Z")

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Hi there,

I am trying to read data from an external source and plot it with the VegaLite plugin in Kibana. From some topics in this forum, I got the impression that this should be possible.

But I keep getting the following error:

> External URLs are not enabled. Add "vega": {"enableExternalUrls": true} `to kibana.yml

I have tweaked my `kibana.yml` but without success. This is what I tried:

```
# Default Kibana configuration from kibana-docker.

server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.url: http://elasticsearch:9200
vega:
  - enableExternalUrls: true

```

What am I doing wrong here?

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**Author:** ![denismaciel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/denismaciel/32/31555_2.png) [@denismaciel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/denismaciel)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-are-not-enabled-for-vegalite/133714/2 "2018-05-29T16:47:09Z")

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I made it work. I think the problem was not with `kibana.yml` itself, but with the way I was putting into the docker container.

In any case, this worked fine for me:

```auto
server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.url: http://elasticsearch:9200
vega.enableExternalUrls: true

```

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-are-not-enabled-for-vegalite/133714/3 "2018-05-29T22:27:56Z")

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Glad you were able to figure it out, and thanks for sharing your fix.

For more Docker inspiration, checkout https [//github.com/elastic/stack-docker](https://github.com/elastic/stack-docker) and you can see how we configure services in the stack.

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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:** [June 26, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-are-not-enabled-for-vegalite/133714/4 "2018-06-26T22:27:59Z")

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