# How to monitor network traffic from ELK which is inside Vmware esxi 5.5?

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**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-network-traffic-from-elk-which-is-inside-vmware-esxi-5-5/118972 "2018-02-08T05:48:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nishan\_Maharjan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nishan_maharjan/32/50510_2.png) [@Nishan\_Maharjan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nishan_Maharjan)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-network-traffic-from-elk-which-is-inside-vmware-esxi-5-5/118972/1 "2018-02-08T05:48:17Z")

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How to enable network traffic monitoring through ELK which is inside Vmware ESXI ? I have already enabled promiscuous mode in vmware and port mirroring in switch and when connecting the wire to laptop network traffic is shown in wireshark, but not in the ELK inside vmware esxi?

The Vmware and ELK both are inside vlan1.

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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:** [March 8, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-network-traffic-from-elk-which-is-inside-vmware-esxi-5-5/118972/2 "2018-03-08T05:48:47Z")

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