# PacketBeat not loading dashboards to kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [April 11, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661 "2018-04-11T15:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![imparker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imparker/32/29887_2.png) [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/1 "2018-04-11T15:11:24Z")
I have packetbeat running on a windows server that's sending logs to an ubuntu 16 server. I'm receiving logs without issue, but the dashboards from the beats install either not being loaded or I simply can't open them, as there is no 'open' option under dashboards. I have done what the included page[1] has told me to do and set setup.dashboards.enabled to true, but when I do that and restart the service, it fails and won't run until I set the value back to false. [1] [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/configuration-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/configuration-dashboards.html) ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/2 "2018-04-11T15:31:51Z")
Hello @imparker if you set `setup.dashboards.enabled` to true and if you start packetbeat with the following flags it should give us more context about why it fails. Can you add the output to this post. `./packetbeat -v -e -d "*" -c myconfig` ---
**Author:** ![imparker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imparker/32/29887_2.png) [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/3 "2018-04-11T15:39:57Z")
Exiting: error loading config file: open myconfig: The system cannot find the file specified. Just so I know I'm doing this right, I'm running this on the windows server that packetbeat is installed on, correct? ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/4 "2018-04-11T16:06:02Z")
it should work on windows, but you have to replace `myconfig` with your `packetbeat.yml` ---
**Author:** ![imparker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imparker/32/29887_2.png) [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/5 "2018-04-11T16:14:11Z")
Oh, whoops. here's what I get. ![Screenshot%20from%202018-04-11%2011-13-13](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/d/9d86cfa4e63a559b0e83a9c72e30836a83ef4dee.png) ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/6 "2018-04-11T17:05:43Z")
Can you connect to that URL from the machine? Sound like either a bad URL or firewall? ---
**Author:** ![imparker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imparker/32/29887_2.png) [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/7 "2018-04-11T18:49:03Z")
Firewall on server is off, UFW rules allow port 5601. I also want to note that packetbeat is unable to start when I have setup.dashboards.enabled set to true. Would that play into it? ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/8 "2018-04-12T13:45:42Z")
Well from what I see this is a startup error when reaching Kibana, 1. Look at the Kibana URL that packetbeat use to connect `http://10.200.1.122:5601` 2. Are you able to connect from the Filebeat machine to the Kibana host with this url, maybe using chrome? ---
**Author:** ![imparker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imparker/32/29887_2.png) [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/9 "2018-04-13T15:17:35Z")
Browsing to [http://10.200.1.122:5601](http://10.200.1.122:5601) or just [http://10.200.1.122](http://10.200.1.122) fails to connect to the server. Testing the connection with test-netconnection fails as well. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/2/4236ecd9f01318841901516a598581086c20233c.png) Currently the only way I can access the kibana interface is by opening a browser on the machine it's on and going to [http://localhost:5601](http://localhost:5601) Would I need to specify that port in a physical firewall? ---
**Author:** ![imparker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imparker/32/29887_2.png) [@imparker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imparker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/10 "2018-04-13T20:51:04Z")
Changing the host address in the kibana.yml to 0.0.0.0 fixed the issue. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-not-loading-dashboards-to-kibana/127661/11 "2018-05-11T22:51:07Z")
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