Rebind Kibana to localhost only

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I've been asked to rebind Kibana to "localhost only." Does this imply I shouldn't be using port 5601?

What exactly does this mean, and how can I check that I've successfully rebound Kibana to localhost only? (Ubuntu 16)

BTW, I'm using Nginx to access the Kibana dashboard. In my Nginx config file, I have the line

proxy_pass http://localhost:5601;

So does that mean Kibana is not bound to localhost only because it still uses port 5601?

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mydomain.com:

  server {
      listen 80 default_server;
      server_name _;
      return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
  }
  server {
      listen 443 ssl;
      include snippets/signed.conf;
      include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
      server_name x.x.x.x;
      auth_basic "Restricted Access";
      auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd.users;
      location / {
          proxy_pass http://localhost:5601;
          proxy_http_version 1.1;
          proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
          proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
          proxy_set_header Host $host;
          proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
      }
  }

(My entire /etc/kibana/kibana.yml is commented out)

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You can control what address Kibana binds to by configuring the server.host option in kibana.yml. We only bind to localhost by default.

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