How to remotely access Kibana in Elastic - elasticsearch

Question

I am currently trying to make my Kibana dashboard remotely accessible via the browser. So, a user can monitor index and run scripts in a remote manner. As background, my elastic is currently ran on Windows server and I could successfully set 'elastic uri search' (e.g. http://[IP_ADDRESS]:9200) remotely accessible by updating elasticsearch.yml and opening the port 9200. For this reason, I took similar actions to remotely access Kibana, updating kibana.yml and opening the port 5601, but I couldn't remotely access kibana on the browser from my local machine. It throws ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT on the browser. See attributes that I have updated for kibana.yml:
server.port: "5601"
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
elasticsearch.url: "http://localhost:9200"

Answer 1

You need to configure the file /etc/kibana/kibana.yml as root:
Uncomment the lines:
server.port: 5601
# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
elasticsearch.hosts
Change the <your-elastic-server-ip> to your elastic search server IP, something like 192.168.1.XX
# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://<your-elastic-server-ip>:9200"]
And check the ports on your firewall:
$ sudo firewall-cmd --list-all
Output:
public (active)
target: default
icmp-block-inversion: no
interfaces: ens33
sources:
services: cockpit dhcpv6-client ftp ssh
ports: 10000/tcp 3306/tcp 9200/tcp 5601/tcp
protocols:
masquerade: no
forward-ports:
source-ports:
icmp-blocks:
rich rules:
If you don't see the ports 9200/tcp 5601/tcp opened then do the following command as sudo:
$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port 9200/tcp
$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port 5601/tcp

Answer 2

I followed these steps to connect remote Elasticsearch on AWS EC2 to my local kibana.
Backup your original .yml files
sudo cp /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml elasticsearch.yml.bk
sudo cp /etc/kibana/kibana.yml kibana.yml.bk
Edit security groups and add a new rule - custom TCP with port 9200 accessible via your public IP v4.
ssh to your server and tweak ufw to allow your ip over 9200 sudo ufw allow from <your public v4 IP> to any port 9200
edit elasticsearch.yml to add network.host: 0.0.0.0
discovery.type: single-node Ref
on your local machine edit kibana.yml and add elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://34.103.134.135:9200"]
go to http://localhost:5601/ you should see your remote index under Discover> index management.
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