title: ELK Stack Setup on Google Cloud: Getting Unable to connect to Elasticsearch at http://localhost:9200 w
body: <p>I'm installing ELK Stack (version 5.2) on Google Cloud Platform as part of a blog post I'm writing. After following instructions from Elastic themselves, I get the following issue</p>
  
  <p>Kibana Dashboard:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LuaHS.png" alt="Kibana Dashboard"></p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on what's preventing ES and Kibana from communicating?</p>