linking kibana with elasticsearch

First of all, Linking is a legacy feature, Create a user defined network first:

docker network create mynetwork --driver=bridge

Now use mynetwork for containers you want to be able to communicate with each other.

docker run -p 5601:5601 --name kibana -d --network mynetwork kibana docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 --name elasticsearch -d --network mynetwork elasticsearch

Docker will run a dns server for your user defined network, so you can ping other container by name.

docker exec -it kibana /bin/bashping elasticsearch

You can use telnet or curl to verify kibana->elasticsearch connectivity from kibana container.

p.s I used official (library) docker images for ELK stack with user defined networking recently and it worked like a charm.

you can add ENV ELASTICSEARCH_URL=elasticsearch:9200 to your Dockerfile before build kibana, then use docker-compose to run elasticsearch with kibana like this:

version: '2'services:  elasticsearch:   image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.3.0   container_name: elasticsearch   ports:    - "9200:9200"    - "9300:9300"  environment:    ES_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xmx256m -Xms256m" kibana:  image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:5.3.0  container_name: kibana  ports:    - "5601:5601"  depends_on:   - elasticsearch