I am using elastic search in my ubuntu16.04 server. When i am trying to access elasticsearch from browser by using url ip:port/_cat/indices?v. I am getting site can't be reached. After that i am change the network.host value to network.host: 0.0.0.0. After change the network.host ip the search engine not started. How can i access the elasticsearch in my browser.I changed the port also.
Thank you..
There can be many reasons for ES not being reachable. I would start with the obvious and make sure that:
ES is listening on the port: on the ES instance when you run 'curl
ip:port' you should get an answer. if not the service didn't start
well.
make sure there are no firewall rules/security groups that prevent
access from remote network.
make sure network.publish_host is configure correctly:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-network.html#advanced-network-settings
more info here: ElasticSearch instance not reachable from outside the server - Azure Windows 2012
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I've done installed my ElasticSearch (ES) Server on a VPS Centos. I did test the ES inside the Server and it response correctly.
My next step, is to allow my website which is host on a different web host to access and index its data content into my ES server.
My question is, what is the recommended way of exposed the ES to the internet, so my website can access to it to perform index and search? Is there's authentication method that I need to install ?
You need to include network.host:0.0.0.0 in your elasticsearch.yml file so that it listens on the non-loopback address and after that, if your app-server and ES are both in the same VPC, app-server will be able to connect to ES(provided if you exposed 9200 port in security group(in case of AWS).
And hopefully, your app-server port is exposed to the internet which internally connects to ES, you should not expose 9200 port of ES or Elasticsearch to the internet.
If you want an extra layer of security, you can enable x-pack basic which is included in the free tier and can be enabled using xpack.security.enabled: true in elasticsearch.config.
Refer x-pack features and configuration for more info.
Every guide or post about this topic says to just set network.host: 0 in the elasticsearch.yml file. However I tried that, along with applying other troubleshooting methods, and nothing seems to work. I'm starting to think maybe the configuration is right, but I am not connecting to it the right way?
This is what my yml file looks like,
discovery.seed_hosts: []
network.publish_host: xx.xxx.xxx.51
network.host: 0.0.0.0
The elastic search server is hosted on an Azure virtual machine. Then when I try to connect to it via curl on my local machine I get a Failed to Connect, Timeout Error.
curl http://xx.xxx.xxx.51:9200
The issue was with the network settings which was blocking all the incoming traffic and once incoming traffic on port 9200, default port of Elasticsearch allowed, the issue got resolved.
Just for the reference, you just need to have network.host: 0.0.0.0 config to make sure Elasticsearch isn't using the loopback address and this by default kicks in the production checks which can be avoided in case you are just running a single node discovery.type:single-node, this helps to troubleshoot such issues.
I have a question reagrdless testing a server and playing around with it. I have set up a local elasticsearch databse and kibana. Now I want to connect to the server from antoher PC on the same network.
My questions are, is that server already up and able for access or do I need apache/wamp or smth third to get the local elastic online for other useres? How to connect to the server when it's up? All the usefull info would be appreciated!
By default Elasticsearch listen on loopback interface (localhost / 127.0.0.1).
You must change configuration. Edit the file elasticsearch.yml like this :
network.host: 0.0.0.0
For listening on all IP addresses of your computer.
I'm using grafana cloud for creating visualization but when i'm trying to load the data source with elasticsearch i'm getting 502 error.
502 usually means bad gateway (there is no connection) and that IP address looks like an internal IP address. GrafanaCloud is a cloud service so it does not have access to internal IP addresses.
Your options are:
Install Grafana locally if you do not want to open up anything over the internet.
Use direct mode instead of proxy mode. This means that requests will go directly from your browser to the elasticsearch server and not go through the Grafana backend server. However, GrafanaCloud is on https so you will get a mixed content warning and you would need to solve that by having a proxy in front of your elasticsearch server (or by setting up https for your server).
Make your server accessible over the internet. Setup a static IP address for your elasticsearch server, setup firewall rules etc. so that GrafanaCloud can query your server.
Add the following configurations in config/elasticsearch.yml:
transport.host: localhost
transport.tcp.port: 9300
http.port: 9200
network.host: 0.0.0.0
I have elasticsearch running on EC2,
I can hit form local IP address(ex. curl -XGET localhost:9200)
I cannot hit from public IP address, whether on the same machine, or from our network, it always times out,
IPtables are allowing
port is open(to itself as well as private network)
Elasticsearch http.cors is enabled and allows "*"
aside from Iptables, amazon security config, elasticsearch config could there be anything I am overlooking? (we can access 443 and get kibana up, it just times out on the elasticsearch ajax call or if I try to access 9200 directly)
been working on this for over a day so I humbly come to you all!
thank you
I had exactly the same issue.
I managed to solve it as follows:
Do what TJ said in his comment, + restart the instance. I wasn't sure if this was/is necessary, but I did it for good measure.
I made sure that the following is set in the elasticsearch.yml file:
a. http.enabled: true
b. http.cors.enabled: true
c. http.cors.allow-origin: "*"
Restarted elasticsearch (service elasticsearch restart)
Then when I tried to access elasticsearch from the public IP it worked - http://[PUBLIC IP OF INSTANCE]:9200
Hope this helps.
I just spent lots of time trying to get this working and just succeeded.
Setup: Elasticsearch 6.2.4, running on a Windows Server 2012, EC2 instance.
I also installed the discovery-ec2 plugin, not sure now if it is required, my assumption is, yes it is required although some of the settings it allows were not necessary to get it working.
Config (.yml). I tried tons of different .yml config settings which in the end did not help, in the end I think the main setting is:
network.host: 0.0.0.0
I tried setting the network.host to ec2:privateIpv4 and ec2:publicIpv4 (plugin settings) but they didn't help.
I had added the required Custom TCP Rules (allowing 9200 and 9300...not sure if 9300 is needed).
Either it failed to start (usually with a binding to 9300 error) or started but was not publicly accessible.
The Fix. What got it working in the end is you must also open the port in windows firewall. As soon as I added the inbound rule, boom it connected :)
I then stripped out all the extra configs I had been trying, restarted Elasticsearch... and it still worked!