Pinging local host doesn't function

Question

elasticsearch==7.10.0

I wish to ping local host '5601' to ensure kibana is running or not but apparently unable to ping.

Note: I am aware that elastic search has in-built function to ping but I still wish to ping using cmd line for a specific reason in my project.

C:\User>ping 5601

Pinging f00:b00:f00:b00 with 32 bytes of data:
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
PING: transmit failed. General failure.

Ping statistics for f00:b00:f00:b00:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)

C:\User>ping http://localhost:5601
Ping request could not find host http://localhost:5601. Please check the name and try again.

Could someone help me?

Answer 1

You can use netstat to check if the port exposed by the Kibana UI, 5061 is in LISTEN mode

$ netstat -tlpn | grep 5601
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp6       0      0 :::5601                 :::*                    LISTEN      -  

Or if you want to establish a connection to destination port 5601 you can use nc

$ nc -vz localhost 5601
Connection to localhost 5601 port [tcp/*] succeeded!