# Kibana ElasticSearch issue "Error Could not contact Elasticsearch at http:/address:9200. Please ensure that Elasticsearch is reachable from your system."

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-elasticsearch-issue-error-could-not-contact-elasticsearch-at-http-address-9200-please-ensure-that-elasticsearch-is-reachable-from-your-system/19705>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 10, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-elasticsearch-issue-error-could-not-contact-elasticsearch-at-http-address-9200-please-ensure-that-elasticsearch-is-reachable-from-your-system/19705 "2014-09-10T09:35:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@Jonathan\_H](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jonathan_H)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-elasticsearch-issue-error-could-not-contact-elasticsearch-at-http-address-9200-please-ensure-that-elasticsearch-is-reachable-from-your-system/19705/1 "2014-09-10T09:35:42Z")

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Hey everyone.

I have installed Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana 3 successfully, I can  
view the Kibana and see that all the logs are coming in. However when I  
ask a member on my team to view Kibana he see this "Error Could not contact  
Elasticsearch at http:/address:9200. Please ensure that Elasticsearch is  
reachable from your system. " (Please find image attached).

My understanding was that Kibana was the one to query Elasticsearch. Why  
does the user need access to port 9200? Is there anyway around this issue  
with out opening the port up?

Regards,  
Jonathan

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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, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-elasticsearch-issue-error-could-not-contact-elasticsearch-at-http-address-9200-please-ensure-that-elasticsearch-is-reachable-from-your-system/19705/2 "2017-07-06T01:03:27Z")

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