# Unable to connect to Elasticsearch. Error: Request Timeout **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 15, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-error-request-timeout/261276 "2021-01-15T15:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![first100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@first100](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/first100)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-error-request-timeout/261276/1 "2021-01-15T15:07:35Z")
I tried to delete kibana\_1 index as stated in the previuos elastic log: ``` (Cluster health status changed from [RED] to [YELLOW] (reason: [shards started [[.kibana_1] ) : ``` so i ran: ``` DELETE /.kibana_1 ``` and i received a success message. this is my kibana.yml file: ```auto server.port: 5601 server.host: [ipaddress] server.name: "servername" elasticsearch.hosts: [ipnode1, ipnode2, ipnode3] ``` and this is the log file of kibana: ```auto {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:14Z","tags":["warning","plugins- discovery"],"pid":3176,"message":"Expect plugin \"id\" in camelCase, but found: apm_oss"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:17Z","tags":["info","plugins- service"],"pid":3176,"message":"Plugin \"visTypeXy\" is disabled."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:18Z","tags":["warning","legacy- service"],"pid":3176,"message":"Some installed third party plugin(s) [apm_oss, console_legacy, elasticsearch, kibana, newsfeed, region_map, status_page, tile_map, timelion, ui_metric] are using the legacy plugin format and will no longer work in a future Kibana release. Please refer to https://ela.st/kibana- breaking-changes-8-0 for a list of breaking changes and https://ela.st/kibana- platform-migration for documentation on how to migrate legacy plugins."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:18Z","tags":["info","plugins- system"],"pid":3176,"message":"Setting up [42] plugins: [usageCollection,telemetryCollectionManager,telemetry,kibanaLegacy,devTools,ui Actions,statusPage,share,newsfeed,mapsLegacy,kibanaUtils,kibanaReact,inspector,embeddable,indexPatternManagement,esUiShared,discover,charts,bfetch,expressions,data,home,console,apm_oss,management,advancedSettings,telemetryManagementSection,visualizations,visTypeVislib,visTypeVega,visTypeTimeseries,visTypeTi melion,visTypeTagcloud,visTypeTable,visTypeMetric,visTypeMarkdown,inputContr olVis,savedObjects,navigation,visualize,dashboard,savedObjectsManagement]"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:19Z","tags":["info","savedobjects- service"],"pid":3176,"message":"Waiting until all Elasticsearch nodes are compatible with Kibana before starting saved objects migrations..."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:24Z","tags":["info","savedobjects- service"],"pid":3176,"message":"Starting saved objects migrations"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-01-15T14:26:54Z","tags": ["warning","savedobjects-service"],"pid":3176,"message":"Unable to connect to Elasticsearch. Error: Request Timeout after 30000ms"} ``` this is the last part of the log of elastic cluster: ```auto [2021-01-15T13:58:24,995][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [cluster-node-1] Cluster health status changed from [RED] to [GREEN] (reason: [shards started [[index_att][0]]]). [2021-01-15T14:40:48,800][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetadataDeleteIndexService] [elastic-cluster-node-1] [.kibana_2/21NiblINQRiAuG3kTEREhA] deleting index [2021-01-15T14:44:29,509][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetadataCreateIndexService] [elastic-cluster-node-1] [.kibana_2] creating index, cause [api], templates [], shards [1]/[1], mappings [_doc] [2021-01-15T14:44:29,525][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [cluster-node-1] updating number_of_replicas to [0] for indices [.kibana_2] [2021-01-15T14:44:29,884][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [cluster-node-1] Cluster health status changed from [YELLOW] to [GREEN] (reason: [shards started [[.kibana_2][0]]]) ``` this is elasticsearch.yml ```auto cluster.name: elastic-cluster node.name: cluster-node-1 path.data: H:\Elastic\data path.logs: H:\Elastic\logs network.host: 0.0.0.0 http.port: 9200 discovery.seed_hosts: ["srvenv1", "srvenv2", "srvenv3"] cluster.initial_master_nodes: ["cluster-node-1", "cluster-node-2", "cluster-node-3"] ``` Can anyone help me? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-error-request-timeout/261276/2 "2021-01-15T17:55:59Z")
Can you ping elasticsearch nodes from your server running kibana? What is the response of running `curl http://your_es_ip:9200/`? ---
**Author:** ![first100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@first100](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/first100)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-error-request-timeout/261276/3 "2021-01-15T20:28:11Z")
thanks for reply, i execute command in server where have node 1 of elastic and kibana , the response is: ```auto { "name" : "cluster-node-1", "cluster_name" : "elastic-cluster", "cluster_uuid" : "[someid]", "version" : { "number" : "7.8.1", "build_flavor" : "default", "build_type" : "zip", "build_hash" : "[somehash]", "build_date" : "2020-07-21T16:40:44.668009Z", "build_snapshot" : false, "lucene_version" : "8.5.1", "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "6.8.0", "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "6.0.0-beta1" }, "tagline" : "You Know, for Search" } ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-error-request-timeout/261276/4 "2021-02-12T20:28:31Z")
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