Kibana in docker while elasticsearch in host machine - is it possible? - please help

Elastic Stack Kibana
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i Pulled Docker image for Kibana 7.6.2. Is there a way the kibana connects to host machine elasticsearch ? if yes what parameter should i give in the docker run command ?
i tried
docker run -d --name kibana761 -e ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://localhost:9200 -p 5601:5601 docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.6.2

when i run the container it says no living connectsions. Should the elasticsearch also be in another container ?

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Hi @Venkatesh_Murthy,

To have Kibana connect to Elasticsearch you need to use the --link parameter. See example from: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/docker.html

 docker run --link YOUR_ELASTICSEARCH_CONTAINER_NAME_OR_ID:elasticsearch -p 5601:5601 {docker-repo}:{version}

Hope this helps,

Thanks
Liza

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the example you provided is giving link to another container, my question is about linking it to host machine's instance and not to another container.

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Hi @Venkatesh_Murthy,

Yes you can connect the host machine, sorry I missed that. Add --network host to your docker run command for starting Kibana.

Thanks,
Liza

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i provided the following command:

docker run -d --name kibana761 --network host -p 5601:5601 docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.6.2

and the container is still unable to connect and says unable to revive connections, no living connections as errors

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Thanks @Venkatesh_Murthy,

For your command above did you also include:
-e ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://localhost:9200 ?

If so, can you try to run curl command on elasticsearch to see if it is running
curl -X GET 'localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty

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