# Using the iptables dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908 "2020-12-30T18:52:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![droidus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@droidus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/droidus)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908/1 "2020-12-30T18:52:44Z")

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I am running iptables on my server. I enable the module, configure the .yml file for the file /var/log/kern.log. I do a filebeat -E setup.kibana.host= setup --dashboards. I restart kibana on the server, and go to view the iptables dashboard, but no data loads. I can confirm that kern.log entries are coming through though from the host. What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908/2 "2020-12-30T21:11:18Z")

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Hi @droidus,

Running `filebeat setup --dashboards` will _just_ setup the dashboards in Kibana. It will not start Filebeat for the purposes of ingesting logs. For that you should run `filebeat`.

More details on [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-installation-configuration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-installation-configuration.html) (specifically steps 4 and 5 but you might want to read the entire document).

Hope that helps,

Shaunak

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**Author:** ![droidus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@droidus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/droidus)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908/3 "2021-01-02T21:37:59Z")

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> [@shaunak](#):
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> `ashboards` will _just_ setup the dashboards in Kibana. It will not start Filebeat for the purposes of ingesting logs. For that you should run `filebeat` .

Shaunak,  
I already have filebeat running.

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**Author:** ![droidus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@droidus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/droidus)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908/4 "2021-01-09T15:15:52Z")

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- bump \*

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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 6, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-iptables-dashboard/259908/5 "2021-02-06T17:15:54Z")

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