Setup Filebeat for Kibana Stack Monitoring dashboard

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am running the Elastic stack v 7.4.2 on Windows and am trying to setup the full stack monitoring by supplying elasticsearch logs using Filebeat as described here.

Everything goes well up to the point where I run the command .\filebeat.exe setup -e. The response is an error saying it was unable to get the Kibana version with

HTTP GET request to http://localhost:5601/api/status fails: parsing kibana response: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value.

When I run the same command in my browser, I get a html page with the Kibana node information. Everything works there, no errors, however when using Postman I get a similar looking error including the words that

This Kibana installation has strict security requirements enabled that your current browser does not meet.

Could this be related?

What am I doing wrong in order to setup the dashboard in Kibana and ingest the logs into the "stack monitoring"?

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That URL should return JSON, not HTML. So it's strange that you're getting a HTML page in your browser. Could you post a screenshot here please?

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Actually I found the issue. It did not realize that running kibana for development changes the url with a prefix, so that was the issue. In production mode it worked.
Is there any way to tell Filebeat to use the automatically generated prefix that is created everytime Kibana starts?

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