How to connect my Kibana to ElasticSearch in the docker run command?

Question

Just trying to learn to setup Kibana and Elastic search using native docker command (i.e. not using Docker-Compose).

Below are the commands I run

docker network create es-net

docker run -d --name es-cluster \
--net es-net -p 9200:9200 \
-e "xpack.security.enabled=false" \
-e "discovery.type=single-node" \
docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.2.0

docker run -d --net es-net -p 5601:5601 \
-e ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://es-cluster:9200 \
docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.2.0

Somehow Kibana is not loading the elastic search up when I run http://localhost:5601/ and always with the message Kibana server is not ready yet

I follow the answer as per Kibana on Docker cannot connect to Elasticsearch, to ensure the ELASTICSEARCH_URL is correctly set, but it is still not coming up. Anything I miss?

note: tested with curl 0.0.0.0:9200, the elastic search is already running

Tried http://host.docker.internal:5601/, nothing came out :( — Elye, Feb 18 '21 at 12:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '21 at 04:15

Looks like since I'm in version 7.2.0 of Kibana, it has changed from ELASTICSEARCH_URL to ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS

as per https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/docker.html

docker run -d --net es-net -p 5601:5601 \
-e ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://es-cluster:9200 \
docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.2.0

With this in place, all should work then.

How to connect my Kibana to ElasticSearch in the docker run command?

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