# Help on Configuring Kibana with ElasticSearch, Filebeat and Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-configuring-kibana-with-elasticsearch-filebeat-and-logstash/357013>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 8, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-configuring-kibana-with-elasticsearch-filebeat-and-logstash/357013 "2024-04-08T20:16:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![mAngelo-dev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mangelo-dev/32/133372_2.png) [@mAngelo-dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mAngelo-dev)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-configuring-kibana-with-elasticsearch-filebeat-and-logstash/357013/1 "2024-04-08T20:16:55Z")

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Hi, I'm currently having some troubles on how to properly configure Kibana and others products that composes the Elastic Stack (Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash and Filebeat), I'm a junior developer and I was challenged to configure WSO2 Api Manager with ELK but I've never used it before. I configured my KIbana service on a virtual machine and it has the following configuration:

```auto
# For more configuration options see the configuration guide for Kibana in
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html

# =================== System: Kibana Server ===================
# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.
# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
server.host: "localhost"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.
# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath
# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.
# This setting cannot end in a slash.
server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with
# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.
# Defaults to `false`.
server.rewriteBasePath: false

# Specifies the public URL at which Kibana is available for end users. If
# `server.basePath` is configured this URL should end with the same basePath.
server.publicBaseUrl: ""

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.
server.maxPayload: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.
server.name: "kibana-wso2"

# =================== System: Kibana Server (Optional) ===================
# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.
# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.
#server.ssl.enabled: false
#server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt
#server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# =================== System: Elasticsearch ===================
# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

# If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide
# the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana
# index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which
# is proxied through the Kibana server.
elasticsearch.username: "admin"
elasticsearch.password: "admin"

# Kibana can also authenticate to Elasticsearch via "service account tokens".
# Service account tokens are Bearer style tokens that replace the traditional username/password based configuration.
# Use this token instead of a username/password.
# elasticsearch.serviceAccountToken: "my_token"

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of
# the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.
elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value
# must be a positive integer.
elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# The maximum number of sockets that can be used for communications with elasticsearch.
# Defaults to `Infinity`.
elasticsearch.maxSockets: 1024

# Specifies whether Kibana should use compression for communications with elasticsearch
# Defaults to `false`.
elasticsearch.compression: false

# List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send *no* client-side
# headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).
elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization]

# Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten
# by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.
elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.
elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 30000

# =================== System: Elasticsearch (Optional) ===================
# These files are used to verify the identity of Kibana to Elasticsearch and are required when
# xpack.security.http.ssl.client_authentication in Elasticsearch is set to required.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt
#elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate
# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.
#elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
#elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# =================== System: Logging ===================
# Set the value of this setting to off to suppress all logging output, or to debug to log everything. Defaults to 'info'
#logging.root.level: debug

# Enables you to specify a file where Kibana stores log output.
logging:
  appenders:
    file:
      type: file
      fileName: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log
      layout:
        type: json
  root:
    appenders:
      - default
      - file
  policy:
    type: size-limit
    size: 256mb
  strategy:
    type: numeric
    max: 10
  layout:
    type: json

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch.
logging.loggers:
  - name: elasticsearch.query
    level: debug

# Logs http responses.
logging.loggers:
  - name: http.server.response
    level: debug

# Logs system usage information.
logging.loggers:
  - name: metrics.ops
    level: debug

# Enables debug logging on the browser (dev console)
logging.browser.root:
  level: debug

# =================== System: Other ===================
# The path where Kibana stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch. Defaults to data
path.data: data

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.
pid.file: /run/kibana/kibana.pid

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance
# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000ms.
ops.interval: 5000

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.
# Supported languages are the following: English (default) "en", Chinese "zh-CN", Japanese "ja-JP", French "fr-FR".
i18n.locale: "en"

# =================== Frequently used (Optional)===================

# =================== Saved Objects: Migrations ===================
# Saved object migrations run at startup. If you run into migration-related issues, you might need to adjust these settings.

# The number of documents migrated at a time.
# If Kibana can't start up or upgrade due to an Elasticsearch `circuit_breaking_exception`,
# use a smaller batchSize value to reduce the memory pressure. Defaults to 1000 objects per batch.
#migrations.batchSize: 1000

# The maximum payload size for indexing batches of upgraded saved objects.
# To avoid migrations failing due to a 413 Request Entity Too Large response from Elasticsearch.
# This value should be lower than or equal to your Elasticsearch cluster’s `http.max_content_length`
# configuration option. Default: 100mb
#migrations.maxBatchSizeBytes: 100mb

# The number of times to retry temporary migration failures. Increase the setting
# if migrations fail frequently with a message such as `Unable to complete the [...] step after
# 15 attempts, terminating`. Defaults to 15
#migrations.retryAttempts: 15

# =================== Search Autocomplete ===================
# Time in milliseconds to wait for autocomplete suggestions from Elasticsearch.
# This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Defaults to 1000ms
#unifiedSearch.autocomplete.valueSuggestions.timeout: 1000

# Maximum number of documents loaded by each shard to generate autocomplete suggestions.
# This value must be a whole number greater than zero. Defaults to 100_000
#unifiedSearch.autocomplete.valueSuggestions.terminateAfter: 100000

```

Can someone help me configure it properly?

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-configuring-kibana-with-elasticsearch-filebeat-and-logstash/357013/2 "2024-04-10T05:44:20Z")

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Hello,

What is happening currently with your configuration? What is the error you see when you try to connect?

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![mAngelo-dev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mangelo-dev/32/133372_2.png) [@mAngelo-dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mAngelo-dev)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-configuring-kibana-with-elasticsearch-filebeat-and-logstash/357013/3 "2024-04-11T20:38:27Z")

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Hi @bhavyarm, so there's a few things that I didnt understand, as I'm using a VM to host my services, I'm currently binding all IP Adresses to my localhost but I can't acess my logs, also I'm struggling to enable and configure properly the basic security in Elasticsearch/Kibana to enter with my credentials, I've only can access Kibana when configuring the `xpac.security.enabled: false`

My http.host is `0.0.0.0`.

When I try to run this error is showing:

```auto
Connection failure to: https://10.0.3.15:9200/_security/_authenticate?pretty failed: Connection refused

ERROR: Failed to connect to elasticsearch at https://10.0.3.15:9200/_security/_authenticate?pretty. Is the URL correct and elasticsearch running?, with exit code 78

```