# Kibana: Unable to connect to Elasticsearch at http://localhost:9200, elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 26, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357 "2017-10-26T07:33:10Z")
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### Author:  [@scarletin\_s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scarletin_s)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/1 "2017-10-26T07:33:10Z")
hi ,
im kinda new with elasticsearch, i used to work with Version 5.5 but as i upgraded elastic and kibana to 5.6.3 encountered this issue, my elasticsearch is up and working but kibana reports this error
i don't change config files at all! so its some how surprising ,i try to reinstall both but nothing worked, i checked another topics with the related error, but as far as i checked none of them helped me out!
every thing seems fine in elasticsearch log file
but in sys log i got this report whereas with netstat i can see elasticsearch is up and running in port 9200, even i checked it with curl and nothing was weird :
i guess the problem is with kibana , because while server is up and running there is nothing in neststat port 5601
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### Author:  [@Conall\_Prendergast](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Conall_Prendergast)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/2 "2017-10-26T10:20:14Z")
Try telling kibana to connect to Elasticsearch at 5.9.40.181 or otherwise tell elasticsearch to listen on 127.0.0.1
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### Author:  [@scarletin\_s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scarletin_s)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/3 "2017-10-29T07:00:19Z")
@Conall_Prendergast tnx for you're reply , but truthfully i did that in kibana and elasticsearch yml files, i realy dont have any idea what the problem comes from, do you have any thing in mind?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/4 "2017-10-29T08:48:44Z")
Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them 🙂
Are Elasticsearch and Kibana on the same host? If not did you point Kibana to the `5.9.40.181` IP as suggested? If so please post your configs as well.
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### Author:  [@Conall\_Prendergast](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Conall_Prendergast)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/5 "2017-10-29T12:14:32Z")
Can you post your kibana.yml and elasticsearch.yml here please
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### Author:  [@scarletin\_s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scarletin_s)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/6 "2017-10-29T14:45:43Z")
this is my elasticsearch config:
# ---------------------------------- Network -----------------------------------
#
# Set the bind address to a specific IP (IPv4 or IPv6):
#
network.host: 0.0.0.0
#
# Set a custom port for HTTP:
#
#http.port: 9200
#
# For more information, consult the network module documentation.
#
# --------------------------------- Discovery ----------------------------------
#
# Pass an initial list of hosts to perform discovery when new node is started:
# The default list of hosts is ["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"]
#
#discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["host1", "host2"]
#
# Prevent the "split brain" by configuring the majority of nodes (total number of master-eligible nodes / 2 + 1):
#
#discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 3
#
# For more information, consult the zen discovery module documentation.
#
# ---------------------------------- Gateway -----------------------------------
#
# Block initial recovery after a full cluster restart until N nodes are started:
#
#gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 3
#
# For more information, consult the gateway module documentation.
#
# ---------------------------------- Various -----------------------------------
#
# Require explicit names when deleting indices:
#
#action.destructive\_requires\_name: true
#xpack.security.enabled: false
#script.inline: true
#script.stored: true
http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-origin: "\*"
* * *
and as for kibana 🙂
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: "5.9.40.181"
# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. This only affects
# the URLs generated by Kibana, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests
# to Kibana. This setting cannot end in a slash.
#server.basePath: ""
# 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](http://server.name): "your-hostname"
# The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.
#elasticsearch.url: "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost: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
verify\_ssl: false
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/7 "2017-10-29T19:53:12Z")
Please edit your post and use the `` button to format the config code.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-at-http-localhost-9200-elasticsearch/105357/8 "2017-11-26T19:53:35Z")
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