Error Could not load dashboards/default.json. Please make sure it exists

[crccheck]

If you access Kibana via a name other than the 172.x.x.x ip or localhost, you get the error: Error Could not load dashboards/default.json. Please make sure it exists because the web server serves a 403 response for nearly everything.

In my case, I set up dns entries so I can talk to my containers by name instead of ip, and going to http://elk.docker:9292/index.html#/dashboard/file/default.json returns that error.

[pblittle]

@crccheck I ran a few tests locally and I'm not able to reproduce this issue.

I am able to access Kibana using my container IP 192.168.59.103:

$ curl -i http://192.168.59.103:9292/index.html#/dashboard/file/default.json
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8
content-length: 2073
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN

I am also able to access Kibana after adding elk.docker to /etc/hosts:

$ curl -i http://elk.docker:9292/index.html#/dashboard/file/default.json
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8
content-length: 2073
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN

This might be a CORS issue. Is http.cors.allow-origin set in your elasticsearch.yml file?

[crccheck]

I wasn't using a custom elasticsearch.yml. http://elk.docker:9292/index.html#/dashboard/file/default.json actually does load for me, but if you open the network console window, it's full of HTTP 403 errors.

"NetworkError: 403 Forbidden - http://elk.docker:9292/app/dashboards/default.json?1432526707006"

But if I use curl, it does load.

This may be a kibana thing.

[pblittle]

@crccheck, this very well could be a Kibana issue. I'm going to close this issue for now. Please repoen if you find it is specific to this project.