# Kibana is unable to connect to ES

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-is-unable-to-connect-to-es/185>\
**Category:** General Feedback\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-is-unable-to-connect-to-es/185 "2019-03-18T03:38:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ppandya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@ppandya](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/ppandya)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-is-unable-to-connect-to-es/185/5 "2019-04-30T05:15:09Z")

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Change multitenancy.enabled setting in kibana to false. Use external yml file for that and then map it to docker volume.

docker-compose.yml

```
   version: '3'
   services:
   elasticsearch:
   image: amazon/opendistro-for-elasticsearch:0.7.0
   container_name: elasticsearch
   environment:
   - bootstrap.memory_lock=true # along with the memlock settings below, disables swapping
   - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms7g -Xmx7g" # minimum and maximum Java heap size, recommend setting both to 50% of system RAM
   ulimits:
   memlock:
          soft: -1
          hard: -1
   volumes:
   - esdata:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
   ports:
   - 9200:9200
   - 9600:9600 # required for Performance Analyzer
   networks:
   - esnet
   kibana:
   image: amazon/opendistro-for-elasticsearch-kibana:0.7.0
   container_name: kibana
   ports:
   - 5601:5601
   volumes:
   - ./kibana.yml:/usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml    
   expose:
   - "5601"
   environment:
   ELASTICSEARCH_URL: https://elasticsearch:9200
   ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME: username
   ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD: password
   networks:
   - esnet

   volumes:
   esdata:

   networks:
   esnet:

```

kibana.yml

```
server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.url: https://localhost:9200
elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
elasticsearch.username: kibanaserver
elasticsearch.password: kibanaserver
elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: ["securitytenant","Authorization"]

opendistro_security.multitenancy.enabled: false
opendistro_security.multitenancy.tenants.preferred: ["Private", "Global"]
opendistro_security.readonly_mode.roles: ["kibana_read_only"]

```

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