# Filebeat connection to remote kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 19, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515 "2018-03-19T09:24:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Prajakta\_Sonawane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prajakta_Sonawane)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/1 "2018-03-19T09:24:46Z")
How do I connect FIlebeat to remote kibana?
in my filebeat.yml file, I gave the ip address on which kibana is working
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setup.kibana:
# IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
host: "ip\_addr:5602"
username: "kibana"
password: "\*\*\*\*\*\*\*"
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The error:
Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version:HTTP GET request to /api/status fails: fail to execute the HTTP GET request: Get http://ip\_addr:5602/api/status: dial tcp ip\_addr:5602: getsockopt: connection refused. Response:
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/2 "2018-03-21T07:01:20Z")
Which versions of Kibana and Filebeat are you using?
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### Author:  [@kanchan\_pingale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanchan_pingale)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/3 "2018-03-21T07:13:30Z")
6.2.2
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/4 "2018-03-21T15:23:00Z")
You have Filebeat 6.2.2 and Kibana 6.2.2? Can you try to use `curl` to see if Kibana is reachable from the server Filebeat is on?
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### Author:  [@bernieb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bernieb)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/5 "2018-03-22T18:21:00Z")
I run kibana and elasticsearch and filebeat instances on a docker stack. Thy are all at version 6.2.2.
I am attempting to load the filebeat dashboards in my kibana instance. I try to run the setup separately with this command:
docker run --net=SWARM\_NET [docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.2.2](http://docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.2.2) setup -E "output.elasticsearch.hosts=["[http://elasticsearch:9200](http://elasticsearch:9200)"]" -E "setup.kibana.host:"[http://kibana:5601](http://kibana:5601)"" --dashboards
It does not work. I see in the logs:
INFO elasticsearch/client.go:145 Elasticsearch url: [http://elasticsearch:9200](http://elasticsearch:9200)
INFO kibana/client.go:69 Kibana url: [http://localhost:5601](http://localhost:5601)
So elasticsearch's url is properly set but not kibana's.
Is there a way to set kibana's url through the command line?
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/6 "2018-03-26T09:13:33Z")
You use a `:` instead of a `=` in the above command before the kibana host. Changing it should solve your issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-connection-to-remote-kibana/124515/7 "2018-04-23T09:14:01Z")
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