# How to access Kibana APIs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-kibana-apis/218171
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-kibana-apis/218171 "2020-02-06T12:36:10Z")
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### Author:  [@SathishPrakasam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SathishPrakasam)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-kibana-apis/218171/1 "2020-02-06T12:36:11Z")
Hi Team,
In metricbeat.yml we have a setting,
# Kibana Host
# Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
# In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: [http://localhost:5601/path](http://localhost:5601/path)
# IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
host: "[kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net](http://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net)"
username: "username"
password: "password"
protocol: "https"
In my orgnization port 5601 is no accessible from intranet.
Kibana is running behind ngnix, [https://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net](https://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net).
When i run metribeat setup --dashboards in order to pull default dashboards on to Kibana, am getting below error.
Exiting: error connecting to Kibana: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to [https://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net:5601/api/status](https://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net:5601/api/status) fails: fail to execute the HTTP GET request: Get [https://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net:5601/api/status:](https://kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net:5601/api/status:) dial tcp 10.129.594.201:5601: connect: connection refused. Response: .
in order to mitigate this problem i tried combination of urls like,
Direct HTTPs url:
[https://username:password@kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net/api/status](https://username:password@kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net/api/status)
Invoking ngnix with user name and password:
[http://username:password@kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net:80/api/status](http://username:password@kibana-dp-dev.snm.syn.nesc.cmpn.net:80/api/status)
But both returns me below error,
{"statusCode":401,"error":"Unauthorized","message":"Unauthorized"}
is there a way to access Kibana APIs by dynamically passing username and password?
any help in correcting my configuration to pull metricbeat dashboard i smuch appreciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-kibana-apis/218171/2 "2020-03-05T12:36:23Z")
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