# Unable to Connect to Elasticsearch using Searchkit

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-using-searchkit/99226>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [September 3, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-using-searchkit/99226 "2017-09-03T14:56:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ong/32/40766_2.png) [@Ong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ong)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-using-searchkit/99226/1 "2017-09-03T14:56:39Z")

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I am starting out using the search kit and am trying to connect to a local instance of Elasticsearch version 5.2. There is already an index, mapping and data in the Elasticsearch instance.

When the page loads, the result is always 0 results found. I am not even sure if it manages to connect to the local instance successfully. The code is:

> import React from 'react';  
> import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';  
> import './index.css';  
> import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';  
> import{SearchkitManager,SearchkitProvider,SearchBox,Hits,HitsStats} from "searchkit";
> 
> const searchkit = new SearchkitManager("[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)");
> 
> ReactDOM.render((
> 
>   
> \<SearchBox searchOnChange={true} queryFields={["productName"]} queryOptions={{analyzer:"standard"}}/\>  
> \<HitsStats translations={{  
> "hitstats.results\_found":"{hitCount} results found"  
> }}/\>  
>   
> 
>   
> ), document.getElementById('root'));
> 
> registerServiceWorker();

I am probably doing something wrong or missing something. Could anyone help with this?

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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:** [October 1, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-using-searchkit/99226/2 "2017-10-01T14:57:04Z")

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