# Kibana cannot connect to ES cluster - Unable to retrieve version information from Elasticsearch nodes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-es-cluster-unable-to-retrieve-version-information-from-elasticsearch-nodes/278185>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-es-cluster-unable-to-retrieve-version-information-from-elasticsearch-nodes/278185 "2021-07-08T12:16:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![dorinand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dorinand/32/70521_2.png) [@dorinand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dorinand)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-connect-to-es-cluster-unable-to-retrieve-version-information-from-elasticsearch-nodes/278185/2 "2021-07-12T14:23:04Z")

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It was my mistake. I set **ELASTICSEARCH\_URL** but Elasticsearch use variable **ELASTICSEARCH\_HOSTS**. I would expect that Kibana will log something more than just `Unable to retrieve version information from Elasticsearch nodes.`.

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