# Monitoring remote ES in local Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\ **Created:** [January 12, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737 "2020-01-12T17:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matthiaskoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@matthiaskoch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matthiaskoch)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737/1 "2020-01-12T17:17:59Z")
Hello! I am new to Elastic and Kibana. I am running Elastic and Kibana on my dev-machine. I can see one ES node at this machine and i have already created indexes and i have some data in ES. Now i try to set up ES on a second machine on my network, lets call it prod-machine. I installed java and ES with brew. I edited the elastic search.yml on that prod-machine like this: transport.host: 192.168.2.108 transport.tcp.port: 9300 ES is running on that machine without Kibana. Then in Kibana on my dev-machine, i added the prod-machine under management / remote clusters / add new cluster. It is connected under [http://192.168.2.108:9300](http://192.168.2.108:9300) Why i can't see it under monitoring / clusters ? I edited the kibana.yml on my dev-machine like this: elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)","[http://192.168.2.108:9300](http://192.168.2.108:9300)" ] Now i get this error: [17:10:06.947] [error][elasticsearch][security] Request error, retrying GET [http://192.168.2.108:9300/.kibana/\_doc/space%3Adefault](http://192.168.2.108:9300/.kibana/_doc/space%3Adefault) =\> Parse Error [17:10:13.608] [error][elasticsearch][monitoring] Request error, retrying POST [http://192.168.2.108:9300/.monitoring-es-6-](http://192.168.2.108:9300/.monitoring-es-6-)_%2C.monitoring-es-7-_/\_search?size=0&ignore\_unavailable=true =\> Parse Error Kibana is not running with that error, How to tell Kibana on my dev-machine, to find ES on 192.168.2.108:9300 and show it under Monitoring / Clusters / elasticsearch? By the way, is there german forum ? maybe i need a german tutorial 😉 Thanks for your help ! ---
**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737/2 "2020-01-14T15:30:38Z")
Hi @matthiaskoch, For `elasticsearch.hosts`, you should use the `http` port. If you are connecting a remote cluster, you'll want to use the `tcp` port. > [@matthiaskoch](#): > > Then in Kibana on my dev-machine, i added the prod-machine under management / remote clusters / add new cluster. It is connected under [http://192.168.2.108:9300](http://192.168.2.108:9300) > > Why i can't see it under monitoring / clusters ? This should work. Did you verify there is monitoring data on this ES node? ---
**Author:** ![matthiaskoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@matthiaskoch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matthiaskoch)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737/3 "2020-01-19T18:43:59Z")
Hey Chris, thanks for your replay. i changed kibana.yml on dev-machine to elasticsearch.hosts: - tcp://192.168.2.108:9300 and got this error. FATAL Error: [elasticsearch.hosts]: types that failed validation: - [elasticsearch.hosts.0]: expected value of type [string] but got [Array]. - [elasticsearch.hosts.1.0]: expected URI with scheme [http|https] but but got [tcp://192.168.2.108:9300]. The only config, that kibana is accepting is elasticsearch.hosts: - [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200) if i add a second ip-addresss, i got errors.. ---
**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737/4 "2020-01-22T19:16:42Z")
Hey @matthiaskoch, Sorry for the confusion. `elasticsearch.hosts` being `localhost:9200` is totally fine. So to clarify, you added a remote cluster (which is `192.168.2.108:9300`) through Kibana, and Kibana indicates that the cluster is up and running? ---
**Author:** ![matthiaskoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@matthiaskoch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matthiaskoch)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737/5 "2020-01-30T21:21:51Z")
Thanks ! all is fine now ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-es-in-local-kibana/214737/6 "2020-02-27T21:31:15Z")
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