# Kibana access to Elasticsearch through a Proxy

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-access-to-elasticsearch-through-a-proxy/49391>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 6, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-access-to-elasticsearch-through-a-proxy/49391 "2016-05-06T09:58:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jesupi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jesupi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jesupi)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-access-to-elasticsearch-through-a-proxy/49391/1 "2016-05-06T09:58:12Z")

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Hi all,

From the computer where Kibana is installed to reach the network where Elasticsearch is installed we have to pass through a Proxy. I cannot find where to configure this (proxy host, proxy port, proxy user, proxy password) in Kibana,

Anyone who could send me an example?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-access-to-elasticsearch-through-a-proxy/49391/2 "2016-05-06T12:22:52Z")

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You would normally do this by setting the `HTTP_PROXY` environment variable on the machine running Kibana. However, there appears to be a bug with this being honored by the HTTP client Kibana uses under the hood: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5211](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5211).

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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, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-access-to-elasticsearch-through-a-proxy/49391/3 "2017-07-06T13:54:02Z")

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