# Kibana doesn't bind to port 5601

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-bind-to-port-5601/673>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-bind-to-port-5601/673 "2015-05-14T09:59:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChrisMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrismark/32/400_2.png) [@ChrisMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrisMark)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-bind-to-port-5601/673/1 "2015-05-14T09:59:32Z")

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Hi guys,

i have met a problem while trying to launch a new ELK server. My problem is that kibana does't seem to bind to port 5601.  
See what i am seeing:

ubuntu@logstashganglia:~$ sudo service kibana4 start

- Starting Kibana4 [OK]

-\> Wait for 5-10 secs and then watch my network:

ubuntu@logstashganglia:~$ netstat -nat | grep LISTEN  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN  
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::\* LISTEN  
tcp6 0 0 :::5000 :::\* LISTEN  
tcp6 0 0 192.168.5.157:9200 :::\* LISTEN  
tcp6 0 0 192.168.5.157:9300 :::\* LISTEN  
tcp6 0 0 :::9301

I am using nginx to serve kibana but i don;t think that this is the problem, because kibana has not even bind the port.

Here is my first lines of .conf for kibana:

# Kibana is served by a back end server. This controls which port to use.

port: 5601

# The host to bind the server to.

host: "localhost"

# The Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch\_url: "[http://192.168.5.157:9200](http://192.168.5.157:9200)"

# preserve\_elasticsearch\_host true will send the hostname specified in `elasticsearch`. If you set it to false,

# then the host you use to connect to _this_ Kibana instance will be sent.

elasticsearch\_preserve\_host: true

Has anyone an idea about this? Is threre a place where kibana keeps its own logs to see what's going on?

Thnx!

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**Author:** ![ChrisMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrismark/32/400_2.png) [@ChrisMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrisMark)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-bind-to-port-5601/673/2 "2015-05-14T13:35:21Z")

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False alarm.  
That was a silly mistake. I had change the location for kibana files and i was trying to change the files in the initial location, so changes had no effect. Everything works fine now.  
Sorry for any confusion.

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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, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-bind-to-port-5601/673/3 "2017-07-06T14:19:34Z")

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