# How to get external url of kibana (loadBalancer)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-external-url-of-kibana-loadbalancer/244962>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-external-url-of-kibana-loadbalancer/244962 "2020-08-14T04:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![melissajenner22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@melissajenner22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/melissajenner22)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-external-url-of-kibana-loadbalancer/244962/1 "2020-08-14T04:14:25Z")

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I use the chart [https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts), version 7.7.1 installed elasticsearch, kibana and logstash into Kubernetes. helm version is 2.16.10. Kubernetes version is 1.16 (eks). I use default settings.

Commands to install:  
helm install --name elasticsearch ./elasticsearch --namespace elk  
helm install --name kibana ./kibana --namespace elk  
helm install --name logstash ./logstash --namespace elk

How to get the external URL of Kibana? If I need to configure loadBalancer, how to do it?

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-external-url-of-kibana-loadbalancer/244962/2 "2020-08-18T08:34:20Z")

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Hi @melissajenner22, I forwarded this question to our helm charts maintainers, they will update the post soon.

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**Author:** ![Julien\_MAILLERET](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/julien_mailleret/32/45074_2.png) [@Julien\_MAILLERET](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Julien_MAILLERET)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-external-url-of-kibana-loadbalancer/244962/3 "2020-09-04T14:13:43Z")

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Hi @melissajenner22,  
With the default values, kibana is not reachable from outside of the K8S cluster and you would need to create a port forward to access it using `kubectl port-forward svc/kibana-kibana 5601`.

If you want to expose Kibana outside of your cluster, you should configure `service` value to configure a `NodePort` or `LoadBalancer`.

Note that you can also use `ingress` value to configure an `Ingress` resource.

See [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#publishing-services-service-types](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#publishing-services-service-types) for more details.

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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:** [October 2, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-external-url-of-kibana-loadbalancer/244962/4 "2020-10-02T14:13:47Z")

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