# Kibana cannot connect to elasticsearch cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch-cluster/152262
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch-cluster/152262 "2018-10-12T14:50:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ryne\_Keel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ryne_Keel)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch-cluster/152262/1 "2018-10-12T14:50:14Z")
Cannot connect to the Elasticsearch cluster currently configured for Kibana.
Refer to the Kibana logs for more details and refresh to try again.
When I connect to kibana I get the above message ^
elastic.yml:
cluster.name: bnisia-1
node.name: node-1
#node.attr.rack: r1
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
#bootstrap.memory\_lock: true
#network.host: localhost
#http.port: 9200
#discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["host1", "host2"]
#discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes:
#gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 3
#action.destructive\_requires\_name: true
kibana.yml:
server.port: 5601
server.host: "192.168.x.x"
elasticsearch.url: "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"
kibana.index: ".kibana"
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### Author:  [@Ryne\_Keel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ryne_Keel)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch-cluster/152262/2 "2018-10-12T17:32:02Z")
This can be closed.
It turns out that if you forget to allow the traffic back out of iptables that it doesn't matter if you allow the input =o
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch-cluster/152262/3 "2018-11-09T17:32:03Z")
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