# Kibana docker trying to connect to default ( ignoring env ELASTICSEARCH\_URL )
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-trying-to-connect-to-default-ignoring-env-elasticsearch-url/185469
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-trying-to-connect-to-default-ignoring-env-elasticsearch-url/185469 "2019-06-12T16:32:00Z")
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### Author:  [@Merril](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Merril)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-trying-to-connect-to-default-ignoring-env-elasticsearch-url/185469/1 "2019-06-12T16:32:00Z")
I am desperately trying to connect a docker Kibana instance to my AWS ES. When I try to provide and environment variable in docker-compose with the elasticsearch\_url but docker defaults to the url provided with the image ( [http://elasticsearch:9200](http://elasticsearch:9200) )
I am getting this error. `{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-06-12T16:24:27Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":1,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://elasticsearch:9200/"}`
```
version: '3'
services:
kibana:
image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana-oss:6.7.0
ports:
- "5601:5601"
volumes:
- ./kibana.yml:/usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml
environment:
ELASTICSEARCH_URL: http://domain_name.eu-west-
2.es.amazonaws.com:80
KIBANA_INDEX: .kibana-5
SERVER_PORT: 5601
```
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### Author:  [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-trying-to-connect-to-default-ignoring-env-elasticsearch-url/185469/2 "2019-06-12T19:35:14Z")
Have you followed the instructions at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/docker.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/docker.html)? `ELASTICSEARCH_URL` is not an expected configuration. You must specify `elasticsearch.hosts` so kibana knows how to connect to elasticsearch
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### Author:  [@Merril](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Merril)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-trying-to-connect-to-default-ignoring-env-elasticsearch-url/185469/3 "2019-06-13T08:21:49Z")
Hi Nathan,
It seems like ELASTICSEARCH\_HOSTS seems to attempt to connect to AWS ES. However I am facing the same issue as before with authorisation issue with AWS ES from a container. `User: anonymous is not authorized to perform: es:ESHttpPut`. Please find the full error report [here](https://github.com/MerrilCode/b2b_readme_images/blob/master/error.txt) I could not find much information on AWS documentation on how to connect an external Kibana instance. If anyone has done it before I would greatly appreciate that. I have allowed the docker host ip on access policy for the AWS ES which in theory should permit the authorisation.
Many thanks,
Merril.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-trying-to-connect-to-default-ignoring-env-elasticsearch-url/185469/4 "2019-07-11T08:21:52Z")
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