Kibana says "Unable to revive connection" but curl says "No problem"

[erikstephens]

I've tried 5.4.0, 5.3.2, and 5.3.1 (both stock elasticsearch & kibana docker images). I'm getting the common "Unable to revive connection":

kibana    | {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-05-09T20:24:11Z","tags":["warning","elasticsearch","admin"],"pid":7,"message":"Unable to revive connection: http://es-client:9200/"}

even though from that same container, I get positive responses using curl:

docker exec -it kibana curl http://es-client:9200
{
  "name" : "client3",
  "cluster_name" : "HiMom",
  "cluster_uuid" : "ZfxhGljwSPCZ0oP0dLbLfQ",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "5.3.2",
    "build_hash" : "3068195",
    "build_date" : "2017-04-24T16:15:59.481Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "6.4.2"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

I've got a really basic config (no ssl). Anyone know why kibana can't establish connection when it can clearly connect via curl? Thanks!

[erikstephens]

Searching the source for 'revive' (both via github search and local grep) yields nothing. Can someone point me to the right source repo (some plugin) I should dive into? Thanks!

[rashmi (kulkarni)]

@erikstephens

"Unable to revive connection":

This happens when Kibana can't communicate with elasticsearch. Can you try pinging elasticsearch with curl from the box that kibana is running on?

curl -i http://localhost:9200

[erikstephens]

Thanks, rashmi. The problem was user error on my part.