# Issues connecting kibana to elasticsearch cluster in kubernetes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-kibana-to-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kubernetes/103785
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 12, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-kibana-to-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kubernetes/103785 "2017-10-12T19:28:29Z")
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### Author:  [@akpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akpt)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-kibana-to-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kubernetes/103785/1 "2017-10-12T19:28:29Z")
I have an elasticsearch cluster on kubernetes and I'm trying to connect kibana to it. Currently this is the kibana.yml file that I mount into the config directory for my kibana pod
```
server.name: kibana-logging
server.host: 0.0.0.0
elasticsearch.url: http://elasticsearch:9200
elasticsearch.username: elastic
elasticsearch.password: changeme
xpack.monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true
```
With this set up `minikube service kibana`, shows an `ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS` page.
Are there any changes required for my config? Thanks!
Investigating the logs for the kibana pod shows some very big requests with lots of repeating text (see followup reply)
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### Author:  [@akpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akpt)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-kibana-to-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kubernetes/103785/2 "2017-10-12T19:30:07Z")
```
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-10-12T18:48:42Z","tags":["listening","info"],"pid":1,"message":"Server running at http://0.0.0.0:5601"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-10-12T18:48:42Z","tags":["status","ui settings","error"],"pid":1,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-10-12T18:48:45Z","tags":["status","plugin:ml@5.6.3","error"],"pid":1,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Request Timeout after 3000ms","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-10-12T18:51:30Z","tags":[],"pid":1,"method":"get","statusCode":302,"req":{"url":"/","method":"get","headers":{"host":"192.168.99.100:32708","connection":"keep-alive","cache-control":"max-age=0","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36","upgrade-insecure-requests":"1","accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8"},"remoteAddress":"172.17.0.1","userAgent":"172.17.0.1"},"res":{"statusCode":302,"responseTime":43,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET / 302 43ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-10-12T18:51:30Z","tags":[],"pid":1,"method":"get","statusCode":302,"req":{"url":"/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/kibana/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2F","method":"get","headers":{"host":"192.168.99.100:32708","connection":"keep-alive","cache-control":"max-age=0","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36","upgrade-insecure-requests":"1","accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8"},"remoteAddress":"172.17.0.1","userAgent":"172.17.0.1"},"res":{"statusCode":302,"responseTime":10,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/kibana/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2F 302 10ms - 9.0B"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2017-10-12T18:51:30Z","tags":[],"pid":1,"method":"get","statusCode":302,"req":{"url":"/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/kibana/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2Flogin%3Fnext%3D%252Fapi%252Fv1%252Fproxy%252Fnamespaces%252Fdefault%252Fservices%252Fkibana%252F","method":"get","headers":{"host":"192.168.99.100:32708","connection":"keep-alive","cache-control":"max-age=0","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36","upgrade-insecure-requests":"1","accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8"},"remoteAddress":"172.17.0.1","userAgent":"172.17.0.1"},"res":{"statusCode":302,"responseTime":6,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/kibana/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2Flogin%3Fnext%3D%252Fapi%252Fv1%252Fproxy%252Fnamespaces%252Fdefault%252Fservices%252Fkibana%252F 302 6ms - 9.0B"}
```
And the responses keep getting bigger in size as a continue scrolling through the logs
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### Author:  [@akpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akpt)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-kibana-to-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kubernetes/103785/3 "2017-10-12T20:23:16Z")
Curling the kibana service using `curl -v` results in the following response:
```
* Trying 192.168.99.100...
* Connected to 192.168.99.100 (192.168.99.100) port 32708 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.99.100:32708
> User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< location: /api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/kibana/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fproxy%2Fnamespaces%2Fdefault%2Fservices%2Fkibana%2F
< kbn-name: kibana
< kbn-version: 5.6.3
< cache-control: no-cache
< content-length: 0
< Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:20:14 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
<
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.99.100 left intact
```
UPDATE:
I managed to get rid of the huge request test blocks but currently my requests to access the kibana service still hang. For now I disabled the login by setting `xpack.security.enabled` to false on both elasticsearch.yml and kibana.yml. But trying to curl the service or access it from chrome just hangs and now I don't see the requests being sent from my kibana pod as well
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-kibana-to-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kubernetes/103785/4 "2017-11-09T20:23:20Z")
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