# Use Kibana on my local machine to monitor Metricbeat on a remote VM?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 19, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054 "2022-10-19T21:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![nola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nola/32/102500_2.png) [@nola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nola)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054/1 "2022-10-19T21:50:00Z")

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I have Metricbeat and Elasticsearch installed and running on an AWS EC2 instance. I have Kibana on my local machine. In kibana.yml, I have the server address for the elastic.hosts parameter, and am able to run queries against the ES indices with no problem. But Kibana can't seem to "see" Metricbeat on the remote machine. How do I configure Metricbeat and/or Kibana to monitor the Metricbeat metrics from my local Kibana?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054/2 "2022-10-19T21:54:49Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

> [@nola](#):
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> But Kibana can't seem to "see" Metricbeat on the remote machine

Can you elaborate a little more on what you mean here please?

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**Author:** ![nola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nola/32/102500_2.png) [@nola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nola)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054/3 "2022-10-19T22:25:14Z")

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Sorry for the lack of details.

I think this is more a Metricbeat issue than a Kibana issue as I've continued to investigate this. I am going to ask for this thread to be closed, and I am going to post a new on in the Beats forum with more detail that I've recently discovered.

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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:** [November 16, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054/4 "2022-11-16T17:15:41Z")

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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:** [December 14, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-kibana-on-my-local-machine-to-monitor-metricbeat-on-a-remote-vm/317054/5 "2022-12-14T17:15:58Z")

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