Because kibana connects from the users desktop to ES. You can reverse proxy this very easily, there are a few example configs in the KB code to help ad it's worth doing.
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 10 September 2014 19:31, Jonathan H <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone. > > I have installed logstash, elasticsearch and Kibana 3 successfully, > however when I ask a member on my team to view kibana he see this "Error > Could not contact Elasticsearch at http:/address:9200. Please ensure that > Elasticsearch is reachable from your system. " (Please find image > attached). > > My understanding was that kibana was the one to query Elasticsearch. Why > does the user need access to port 9200? Is there anyway around this issue > with out opening the port up? > > Regards, > Jonathan Hickey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/0d3f7aa5-69e0-4a6d-b8fa-9c10069d96d0%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/0d3f7aa5-69e0-4a6d-b8fa-9c10069d96d0%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624YeA9cvFu1kXOsT%2Bd6Z30t-oQ6qmNzgzGt4xR9mBdZZcQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
