# Unable to create kibana index '.kibana'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-kibana-index-kibana/116258>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-kibana-index-kibana/116258 "2018-01-19T14:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Calum\_Price](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Calum\_Price](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Calum_Price)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-kibana-index-kibana/116258/1 "2018-01-19T14:48:02Z")

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The Kibana dashboard is still red saying unable to create Kibana index '.Kibana'. (Kibana runs on a EC2 instance.

When I run curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v&pretty' on the elasticsearch pod (k8s), i get the following back;

y\*llow open .monitoring-es-6-2018.01.19 mpziscskmdcn4hh3-33 1 1 1917 14 1mb 1mb

Why won't my kibana dashboard connect to elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-kibana-index-kibana/116258/2 "2018-01-19T16:49:34Z")

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Is Elasticsearch accessible from the Kibana server? Can you connect to it via cURL from the Kibana machine for instance?

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**Author:** ![Calum\_Price](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Calum\_Price](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Calum_Price)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-kibana-index-kibana/116258/3 "2018-01-22T09:44:57Z")

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Doesn't look like it. May be a network issue in this case.

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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:** [February 19, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-kibana-index-kibana/116258/4 "2018-02-19T09:45:09Z")

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