Fail to get kibana version: HTTP GET request to http:/localhost:5600/api

Elastic Stack Beats
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Hi all,
I am running elasticsearch and kibana in a container and i am trying to link filebeat to kibana but I am having an error. I am still a noob in this.However, I succesfully had results when i installed them locally but this seems difficult for me to run it in a container. below are my commands and error message that i get when running the last command. Maybe i am doing something wrong here.

docker network create -d bridge mynetwork
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docker run --network=mynetwork --name elasticsearch -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e 
"discovery.type=single-node"  docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.0.1
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docker run --network=mynetwork --name kibana -p 5601:5601 --link elasticsearch:elasticsearch  
-e "ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200" docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.0.1
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docker run --network=mynetwork --link elasticsearch:elasticsearch --name filebeat 
docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:7.0.1  setup -E filebeat.input.paths=/var/jenkins_home -E 
setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601

And here is the error message when i run the last command

Index setup complete.
Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Exiting: error connecting to Kibana: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to 
http://localhost:5601/api/status fails: fail to execute the HTTP GET request: Get 
http://localhost:5601/api/status: dial tcp [::1]:5601: connect: cannot assign requested address. 
Response: .

Your help is highly appreciated.
Thanks

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It looks like you're telling filebeat that Kibana is on localhost, but in this context wouldn't localhost be the container running filebeat? What happens if you point filebeat at kibana:5601 instead?

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Hi.
It was now able to connect to kibana when I changed it to kibana:5601. However, it runs and disconnects after some few seconds. Any reason for this behavior ? Here is output after runnning the last command

Index setup complete.
Loading dashboards (kibana must be running and reachable)
Loaded dashboards
Loaded machine learning job configurations
PS C:\Users\mymachine>

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