# Kibana 4.3 sending x-Forwarded-For:127.0.0.1 , even if i am not using any load balancer ,Is it a desired behavior

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3-sending-x-forwarded-for-127-0-0-1-even-if-i-am-not-using-any-load-balancer-is-it-a-desired-behavior/37297>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 16, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3-sending-x-forwarded-for-127-0-0-1-even-if-i-am-not-using-any-load-balancer-is-it-a-desired-behavior/37297 "2015-12-16T03:15:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![soodlikesjava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@soodlikesjava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/soodlikesjava)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3-sending-x-forwarded-for-127-0-0-1-even-if-i-am-not-using-any-load-balancer-is-it-a-desired-behavior/37297/1 "2015-12-16T03:15:06Z")

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I am using Kibana 4.3.0 with ES 2.1 and I can see kibana is sending x-Forwarded-for : 127.0.0.1 in the request header to elasticsearch even though if i am not using any load balancer . Can you please confirm if its a desired behavior?

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3-sending-x-forwarded-for-127-0-0-1-even-if-i-am-not-using-any-load-balancer-is-it-a-desired-behavior/37297/2 "2015-12-17T22:28:11Z")

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Just, this is expected and even desired behavior. To quote from this issue: [Kibana 4.3 sending x-Forwarded-For:127.0.0.1 , even if i am not using any load balancer ,Is it a desired behavior? · Issue #5705 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5705)

> Yes, kibana uses this header to identify clients connecting through the /elasticsearch endpoint.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3-sending-x-forwarded-for-127-0-0-1-even-if-i-am-not-using-any-load-balancer-is-it-a-desired-behavior/37297/3 "2017-07-06T14:06:19Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:06pm UTC