# Receiving and displaying logs in kibana over openvpn

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-and-displaying-logs-in-kibana-over-openvpn/97928>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-and-displaying-logs-in-kibana-over-openvpn/97928 "2017-08-22T14:44:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![bm1391](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@bm1391](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bm1391)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-and-displaying-logs-in-kibana-over-openvpn/97928/1 "2017-08-22T14:44:49Z")

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I have configured a ELK stack and I am having problems getting Kibana to display the logs only\* over our VPN. Our logstash server is 10.100.1.10 and the openvpn server is 10.200.1.0/24 network. I am able to send test logs (logger test1, logger test2 etc.) from the remote hosts to our logstash server and I can see the logs I send in /var/log/syslog.Because of this, I can't seem to think it is a firewall issue at all. I am transferring the logs via UDP (. @ipaddress:514). The Logstash and syslog server are on the same host(10.100.1.10). Any hosts on the 10.100.1.0/24 network can send logs and Kibana displays them.

Tests: From remote host (10.200.1.10)

```
ping 10.100.1.10(logstash) => success

netcat 10.100.1.10 -z -v -u 514 => success
```

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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:** [September 19, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-and-displaying-logs-in-kibana-over-openvpn/97928/2 "2017-09-19T14:45:27Z")

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