Registered · Cross-platform

5601 Kibana

TCP Unofficial
UDP
SCTP
DCCP

What it is

Kibana web UI for Elasticsearch.

When / why

Log/analytics dashboards. Put behind auth and a reverse proxy.

Protocol status detail

TransportStatusMeaning
TCP Unofficial Not assigned by IANA, but standardized, specified, or widely used on this port.
UDP Not applicable for this transport.
SCTP Not applicable for this transport.
DCCP Not applicable for this transport.

Port range

Registered (1024–49151). Assigned by IANA on request; usable without elevated privileges on most systems.

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Firewall rules for port 5601

Copy-ready inbound rules for the active transports. Replace every <source> placeholder with the specific host, subnet, or CIDR that should reach this port.

ufw

sudo ufw allow proto tcp from <source> to any port 5601

Allow TCP 5601 (Kibana). Replace <source> with the network/host that should reach it.

firewalld

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="<source>" port port="5601" protocol="tcp" accept'

Allow TCP 5601 (Kibana) from <source>. Run 'firewall-cmd --reload' afterwards.

nftables

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr <source> tcp dport 5601 accept

Allow TCP 5601 (Kibana). Assumes table 'inet filter' with an 'input' chain.

iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s <source> --dport 5601 -j ACCEPT

Allow TCP 5601 (Kibana). Persist with iptables-save/netfilter-persistent.

Azure NSG

az network nsg rule create -g <resource-group> --nsg-name <nsg> -n Allow-kibana-5601 --priority 1000 --access Allow --direction Inbound --protocol TCP --source-address-prefixes <source> --destination-port-ranges 5601

Inbound rule for 5601 (Kibana). Set <source> to a CIDR; lower priority number = higher precedence.

AWS Security Group

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id <sg-id> --ip-permissions IpProtocol=tcp,FromPort=5601,ToPort=5601,IpRanges="[{CidrIp=<source-cidr>}]"

Inbound TCP 5601 (Kibana). Replace <source-cidr> (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16).

GCP firewall

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-kibana-5601 --direction=INGRESS --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:5601 --source-ranges=<source-cidr> --network=<network>

Ingress rule for 5601 (Kibana). Scope with --source-ranges and optionally --target-tags.

Windows netsh

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Kibana 5601/TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=5601 remoteip=<source>

Inbound TCP 5601 (Kibana). Set remoteip to a host/subnet; 'any' is discouraged.

Windows PowerShell

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow Kibana 5601/TCP" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 5601 -RemoteAddress <source>

Inbound TCP 5601 (Kibana). Replace <source> with a host or subnet.

Rules are generated only for transports marked active for this port. They default to an inbound allow with an explicit source placeholder — never any. Review direction, scope, and rule precedence before applying in production.