# Kibana cannot connect to Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 10, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289 "2015-11-10T22:05:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Kaufusihm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Kaufusihm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaufusihm)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/1 "2015-11-10T22:05:35Z")

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I am unable to connect to elasticsearch with Kibana. I am getting the following on elasticsearch logs.

Separate servers...

[2015-11-10 13:16:57,449][INFO][rest.suppressed] /.kibana/config/\_search Params: {index=.kibana, type=config}  
Failed to execute phase [query], all shards failed; shardFailures {[3iUXrGlHR0amrMzhhrqnzA][.kibana][0]: RemoteTransportException[[esearch1\_test][][indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]]; nested: SearchParseException[failed to parse search source [{"size":1000,"sort":[{"buildNum":{"order":"desc"}}],"query":{"filtered":{"filter":{"bool":{"must\_not":[{"query":{"match":{"\_id":"@@version"}}}]}}}}}]]; nested: SearchParseException[No mapping found for [buildNum] in order to sort on]; }{[3iUXrGlHR0amrMzhhrqnzA][.kibana][1]: RemoteTransportException[[esearch1\_test][B][indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]]; nested: SearchParseException[failed to parse search source [{"size":1000,"sort":[{"buildNum":{"order":"desc"}}],"query":{"filtered":{"filter":{"bool":{"must\_not":[{"query":{"match":{"\_id":"@@version"}}}]}}}}}]]; nested: SearchParseException[No mapping found for [buildNum] in order to sort on]; }{[3iUXrGlHR0amrMzhhrqnzA][.kibana][2]: RemoteTransportException[[esearch1\_test][][indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]]; nested: SearchParseException[failed to parse search source [{"size":1000,"sort":[{"buildNum":{"order":"desc"}}],"query":{"filtered":{"filter":{"bool":{"must\_not":[{"query":{"match":{"\_id":"@@version"}}}]}}}}}]]; nested: SearchParseException[No mapping found for [buildNum] in order to sort on]; }{[3iUXrGlHR0amrMzhhrqnzA][.kibana][3]: RemoteTransportException[[esearch1\_test][][indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]]; nested: SearchParseException[failed to parse search source [{"size":1000,"sort":[{"buildNum":{"order":"desc"}}],"query":{"filtered":{"filter":{"bool":{"must\_not":[{"query":{"match":{"\_id":"@@version"}}}]}}}}}]]; nested: SearchParseException[No mapping found for [buildNum] in order to sort on]; }{[3iUXrGlHR0amrMzhhrqnzA][.kibana][4]: RemoteTransportException[[esearch1\_test][][indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]]; nested: SearchParseException[failed to parse search source [{"size":1000,"sort":[{"buildNum":{"order":"desc"}}],"query":{"filtered":{"filter":{"bool":{"must\_not":[{"query":{"match":{"\_id":"@@version"}}}]}}}}}]]; nested: SearchParseException[No mapping found for [buildNum] in order to sort on]; }

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/2 "2015-11-10T23:21:14Z")

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That error is not a connectivity one, it is saying there is a problem with your search.

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**Author:** ![Kaufusihm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Kaufusihm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaufusihm)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/3 "2015-11-11T01:51:44Z")

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Ok, thanks. So isn't kibana unable to find the index .kibana?

Or is my index.mapping wrong?

Or something else?

I'm still battling this issue.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/4 "2015-11-11T04:41:32Z")

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Here's the root exception:

> SearchParseException[No mapping found for [buildNum] in order to sort on]

From where does it get buildNum?

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**Author:** ![Kaufusihm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Kaufusihm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaufusihm)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/5 "2015-11-12T00:15:02Z")

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I don't follow what your asking

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/6 "2015-11-12T03:41:34Z")

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Someone is trying to search on a field that KB doesn't know about.  
Try refreshing the mappings on the index settings page.

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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, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-elasticsearch/34289/7 "2017-07-06T14:09:18Z")

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