# Unable to connect to Elastic Search from Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337 "2020-01-31T09:30:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@JishnuD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JishnuD)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337/1 "2020-01-31T09:30:04Z")
Hi Everyone,
I am running elasticsearch and kibana 7.1 on my local and trying to establish connectivity from Kibana to Elasticsearch post enabling https on Elasticsearch.
Kibana is reporting the below error
> Blockquote
> [09:01:44.195] [error][data][elasticsearch] Request error, retrying GET [https://localhost:9200/\_xpack](https://localhost:9200/_xpack) =\> self signed certificate[09:01:44.195] [error][data][elasticsearch] Request error, retrying GET [https://localhost:9200/\_xpack](https://localhost:9200/_xpack) =\> self signed certificate
Below are the configurations on Kibana and elastic
**Kibana**
elasticsearch.hosts: ["[https://localhost:9200](https://localhost:9200)"]
elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["C:\MyFolder\PRD\thisFolder\kibana-7.1.1-windows-x86\_64\config\elastic.cer"]
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: certificate
**Elasticsearch**
xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.http.ssl.keystore.path: elsecert
xpack.security.http.ssl.truststore.path: elsecert
xpack.security.http.ssl.client\_authentication: optional
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: elsecert
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: elsecert
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337/2 "2020-01-31T13:00:46Z")
Hi @JishnuD, welcome to the discussion boards!
What is the file format of `C:\MyFolder\PRD\thisFolder\kibana-7.1.1-windows-x86_64\config\elastic.cer`? Typically, `.cer` is used for `DER` encoded certificates, but Kibana requires these to be specified in the `PEM` format.
Can you ensure/convert this certificate to `PEM`?
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### Author:  [@JishnuD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JishnuD)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337/3 "2020-01-31T17:20:34Z")
Hi Larry,
I had also tried with a pem file, which i generated using openssl on the PKCS#12 cert store generated for elastic search. The elsecert in the ElasticSearch config is the PKCS#12 cert store.
However, it produces the same error trace.
If i do set the verificationmode as none, kibana works as expected and i am able to setup connection to elasticsearch
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### Author:  [@JishnuD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JishnuD)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337/4 "2020-01-31T19:19:35Z")
@Larry_Gregory I was able to resolve all issues after following the steps outlined in [https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-security-configure-tls-ssl-pki-authentication](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-security-configure-tls-ssl-pki-authentication)
Marking the issue as resolved . Thanks for your help !
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elastic-search-from-kibana/217337/5 "2020-02-28T19:19:37Z")
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