# Kibana not connecting **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490 "2019-06-19T14:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![durrellgray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@durrellgray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/durrellgray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/1 "2019-06-19T14:23:20Z")
Hello, I am extremely new to elasticsearch and Kibana. I have been able to get my elasticsearch instance running, but my Kibana will not connect. [root@elasticsearch01 log]# curl -GET [http://x.x.182.5:9200](http://x.x.182.5:9200) { "name" : "elasticsearch01", "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", "cluster\_uuid" : "Htag37XMQ4i4jo0pwKk4wg", "version" : { "number" : "7.0.1", "build\_flavor" : "default", "build\_type" : "rpm", "build\_hash" : "e4efcb5", "build\_date" : "2019-04-29T12:56:03.145736Z", "build\_snapshot" : false, "lucene\_version" : "8.0.0", "minimum\_wire\_compatibility\_version" : "6.7.0", "minimum\_index\_compatibility\_version" : "6.0.0-beta1" }, "tagline" : "You Know, for Search" But [root@elasticsearch01 log]# curl -XGET [http://x.x.182.5:5601/status](http://x.x.182.5:5601/status) -I curl: (7) Failed connect to x.x.182.5:5601; Connection refused [root@elasticsearch01 log]# ---
**Author:** ![Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/askia_mohamed_kadri/32/134665_2.png) [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Askia_Mohamed_Kadri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/2 "2019-06-19T14:27:09Z")
Are you sure you are running Kibana on the port 5601? Can you post your Kibana logs please ---
**Author:** ![durrellgray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@durrellgray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/durrellgray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/3 "2019-06-19T14:34:37Z")
That's the weird thing. I set my kibana logs to go to /var/log/kibana, but I am getting nothing there. Here is my kibana.yaml # Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use. server.port: 5601 # Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values. # The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect. # To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address. server.host: x.x.182.5 # Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. # Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath # from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup. # This setting cannot end in a slash. #server.basePath: "" # Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with # `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy. # This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will # default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0. #server.rewriteBasePath: false # The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests. #server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576 # The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes. server.name: elasticsearch01 # The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries. elasticsearch.hosts: [http://x.x.182.5:9200](http://x.x.182.5:9200) # When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host # setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host # that connects to this Kibana instance. #elasticsearch.preserveHost: true # Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and # dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist. #kibana.index: ".kibana" # The default application to load. #kibana.defaultAppId: "home" # If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide # the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana # index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which # is proxied through the Kibana server. #elasticsearch.username: "user" #elasticsearch.password: "pass" # Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively. # These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser. #server.ssl.enabled: false #server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt #server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key # Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files. # These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files. #elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt #elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key # Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate "/etc/kibana/kibana.yml" 114L, 5077C ---
**Author:** ![Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/askia_mohamed_kadri/32/134665_2.png) [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Askia_Mohamed_Kadri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/4 "2019-06-19T14:42:33Z")
Which command are you launching Kibana with? Have you created the repository where you want kibana to write logs and did you set permission on it? Maybe you have errors on your Kibana launching ---
**Author:** ![durrellgray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@durrellgray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/durrellgray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/5 "2019-06-19T14:48:25Z")
sytemctl start kibana I have not created a repository. Not sure of the steps to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/askia_mohamed_kadri/32/134665_2.png) [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Askia_Mohamed_Kadri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/6 "2019-06-19T15:00:37Z")
Instead of running it with systemctl just try to run it with ./bin/kibana first. If it works you can run it with systemctl For the repository a simple mkdir will do the work ---
**Author:** ![durrellgray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@durrellgray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/durrellgray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/7 "2019-06-19T15:05:23Z")
./bin/kibana did not work. ./bin/kibana: No such file or directory ---
**Author:** ![Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/askia_mohamed_kadri/32/134665_2.png) [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Askia_Mohamed_Kadri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/8 "2019-06-19T15:06:39Z")
Did you run this command in the bin reposiroty of your kibana? ---
**Author:** ![durrellgray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@durrellgray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/durrellgray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/9 "2019-06-19T15:10:45Z")
[root@elasticsearch01 kibana]# ./bin/kibana FATAL Error: Port 5601 is already in use. Another instance of Kibana may be running! ---
**Author:** ![Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/askia_mohamed_kadri/32/134665_2.png) [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Askia_Mohamed_Kadri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/10 "2019-06-19T15:15:40Z")
Seems like you already launched your kibana. run: `netstat -nlp | grep 5601` to see the instance running on that port and get the intance-pid You should have something like: _tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5601 0.0.0.0: LISTEN 11261/./../node/bin_\* `kill instance-pid` the instance-pid for the example up there is 11261 The run the command `./bin/kibana` again ---
**Author:** ![durrellgray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@durrellgray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/durrellgray)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/11 "2019-06-19T15:18:05Z")
> [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](#): > > kill instance-pid Thank you soo much. This worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/askia_mohamed_kadri/32/134665_2.png) [@Askia\_Mohamed\_Kadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Askia_Mohamed_Kadri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/12 "2019-06-19T15:19:21Z")
You're welcome mate. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting/186490/13 "2019-07-17T15:29:10Z")
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