# Unable to setup dashboard on Kibana from Beats

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-dashboard-on-kibana-from-beats/232605
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-dashboard-on-kibana-from-beats/232605 "2020-05-14T09:41:11Z")
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### Author: ![Atul\_Gunjal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atul_gunjal/32/57232_2.png) [@Atul\_Gunjal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Gunjal)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-dashboard-on-kibana-from-beats/232605/1 "2020-05-14T09:41:11Z")

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Showing error while loading dashboard to kibana using

```auto
.\metricbeat.exe setup --dashboards

```

```auto
Exiting: error connecting to Kibana: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to https://7147ccb65b60479190c4a7918017a4a8.eastus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com:9243/app/kibana#/home/api/status fails: parsing kibana response: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value. Response: <!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charSet="utf-8"/><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/><title>Kibana</title><style> @font-face { font-f... (truncated).

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### Author: ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-dashboard-on-kibana-from-beats/232605/2 "2020-05-14T19:00:17Z")

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Hey @Atul_Gunjal,

How are you defining the Kibana host in the configuration?

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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: [June 11, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-dashboard-on-kibana-from-beats/232605/3 "2020-06-11T21:01:23Z")

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