Kibana

High Risk

TCP — Web

Port Overview

Port Number 5601

Service Name Kibana

Transport Protocol TCP

Category Web

Security Risk High

Port Range Registered (1024-49151)

What is Port 5601?

Port 5601 is the default port for Kibana, the visualization and analytics frontend of the Elastic Stack (ELK). Kibana provides dashboards, search interfaces, and data exploration tools for data stored in Elasticsearch. Numerous data breaches have occurred from publicly exposed Kibana instances without authentication.

TCP Web Commonly Used

Security Considerations

Port 5601 (Kibana) is classified as high risk. This port is a common target for automated scanning and brute-force attacks. If you must expose it, restrict access to known IP addresses.

Recommendation: Use firewall rules to whitelist trusted IPs. Enable rate limiting and intrusion detection.

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