# New to elasticsearch, kibana and logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176 "2016-10-04T14:57:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![sim\_tcr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sim\_tcr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sim_tcr)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176/1 "2016-10-04T14:57:09Z")

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Hello,

I am a new user to to elasticsearch, kibana and logstash.

I downloaded Elasticsearch 2.4.1 zip file to ubuntu 14.04 and extricated to /apps/elasticsearch-2.4.1/  
Started it by /apps/elasticsearch-2.4.1/bin/elasticsearch -d

I downloaded Kibana 4.6.1 tar file to ubuntu 14.04 and extricated to /apps/kibana-4.6.1-linux-x86\_64/  
Edited /apps/kibana-4.6.1-linux-x86\_64/config/kibana.yml and set below values  
server.port: 5601  
server.host: ""  
elasticsearch.url: "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"

Started it by /apps/kibana-4.6.1-linux-x86\_64/bin/kibana  
saw message [info][listening] Server running at http://:5601

But i dont get a page when i try http://:5601

Can any one help?

Thanks,  
Simon Mandy

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176/2 "2016-10-04T15:29:30Z")

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What do the elasticsearch logs say?

BTW, I'd not try to modify any setting at first. So keep the default Kibana settings values.

I think that `server.host: ""` should be something like `server.host: "127.0.0.1"`

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**Author:** ![sim\_tcr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sim\_tcr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sim_tcr)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176/3 "2016-10-04T15:37:25Z")

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OK, I clean installed elasticsearch and kibana and started both back. (to get the confutation to default as you suggested)  
Here is log from elasticsearch.log

```
[2016-10-04 11:33:26,985][INFO][node] [Hector] version[2.4.1], pid[5415], build[c67dc32/201
6-09-27T18:57:55Z]
[2016-10-04 11:33:26,998][INFO][node] [Hector] initializing ...
[2016-10-04 11:33:27,774][INFO][plugins] [Hector] modules [reindex, lang-expression, lang-groo
vy], plugins [], sites []
[2016-10-04 11:33:27,799][INFO][env] [Hector] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/apps (/dev/x
vdb1)]], net usable_space [43.5gb], net total_space [46.8gb], spins? [no], types [ext4]
[2016-10-04 11:33:27,799][INFO][env] [Hector] heap size [1007.3mb], compressed ordinary ob
ject pointers [true]
[2016-10-04 11:33:27,800][WARN][env] [Hector] max file descriptors [4096] for elasticsearc
h process likely too low, consider increasing to at least [65536]
[2016-10-04 11:33:29,983][INFO][node] [Hector] initialized
[2016-10-04 11:33:29,983][INFO][node] [Hector] starting ...
[2016-10-04 11:33:30,083][INFO][transport] [Hector] publish_address {127.0.0.1:9300}, bound_addr
esses {127.0.0.1:9300}
[2016-10-04 11:33:30,089][INFO][discovery] [Hector] elasticsearch/M0tziDnZRVunwibP0FggRg
[2016-10-04 11:33:33,142][INFO][cluster.service] [Hector] new_master {Hector}{M0tziDnZRVunwibP0FggRg}{
127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:9300}, reason: zen-disco-join(elected_as_master, [0] joins received)
[2016-10-04 11:33:33,202][INFO][http] [Hector] publish_address {127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addr
esses {127.0.0.1:9200}
[2016-10-04 11:33:33,203][INFO][node] [Hector] started
[2016-10-04 11:33:33,236][INFO][gateway] [Hector] recovered [0] indices into cluster_state
[2016-10-04 11:33:49,726][INFO][cluster.metadata] [Hector] [.kibana] creating index, cause [api], templ
ates [], shards [1]/[1], mappings [config]
[2016-10-04 11:33:50,003][INFO][cluster.routing.allocation] [Hector] Cluster health status changed from [RED] to
 [YELLOW] (reason: [shards started [[.kibana][0]] ...]).
```

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176/4 "2016-10-04T18:25:19Z")

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It looks good.

(Please format your code)

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**Author:** ![sim\_tcr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sim\_tcr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sim_tcr)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176/5 "2016-10-05T09:37:18Z")

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I did below and that fixed it.  
`sudo ufw allow 5601`

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash/62176/6 "2017-07-05T22:14:48Z")

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