# Access Denied to ES
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 23, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427 "2016-09-23T23:49:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Allie\_Yang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Allie_Yang)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/1 "2016-09-23T23:49:07Z")
I am trying to use logstash beta version 5.0 to parse data. I also installed Xpacks. However, below is the error code. How could i access ES server (beta version):
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,382][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=\>{:removed=\>[], :added=\>["[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"]}}
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,385][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Using mapping template from {:path=\>nil}
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,450][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] **Failed to install template. {:message=\>"Got response code '401' contact Elasticsearch at URL '[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)'",** :class=\>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::HttpClient::Pool::BadResponseCodeError"}
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,451][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=\>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=\>["localhost:9200"]}
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,452][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Starting pipeline {"id"=\>"main", "pipeline.workers"=\>8, "pipeline.batch.size"=\>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=\>5, "pipeline.max\_inflight"=\>1000}
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,455][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline main started
[2016-09-23T16:44:28,489][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=\>9600}
hello
[2016-09-23T16:44:56,777][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] **Got a bad response code from server, but this code is not considered retryable. Request will be dropped {:code=\>401}**
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### Author:  [@Allie\_Yang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Allie_Yang)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/2 "2016-09-24T00:40:29Z")
solved. Need to set access in Kibana
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### Author:  [@ambroseyo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ambroseyo)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/3 "2016-10-28T01:28:03Z")
Can you clarify what you did the solve the problem? I started hitting this issue once I enabled X-Pack in the cluster. V5.0.0.
```
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,553][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>["http://logstash:7XcEdf667kNh9C8f9tBt@localhost:9200"]}}
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,555][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Using mapping template from {:path=>nil}
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,745][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Failed to install template. {:message=>"Got response code '401' contact Elasticsearch at URL 'http://~hidden~:~hidden~@localhost:9200'", :class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::HttpClient::Pool::BadResponseCodeError"}
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,746][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["localhost"]}
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,754][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Starting pipeline {"id"=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>8, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>5, "pipeline.max_inflight"=>1000}
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,768][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline main started
[2016-10-27T18:08:26,845][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
[2016-10-27T18:08:27,221][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Got a bad response code from server, but this code is not considered retryable. Request will be dropped {:code=>401}
```
Edit: See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html) for instructions on adding logstash\_writer role and creating a logstash\_internal user in the Management \> Roles UI in Kibana
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### Author:  [@Generalibm\_Jang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Generalibm_Jang)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/4 "2016-11-09T07:15:28Z")
I 've met the same problem, I just want to how to set access in Kibana!
Could you show more clues???
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### Author:  [@robertchen117](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robertchen117)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/5 "2016-11-29T19:20:25Z")
trying to add user and password to logstash, it even does not recognize:
> [@Add user and password and failed](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-user-and-password-and-failed/67525):
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> I followed this doc after I installed x-pack. And I update my logstash.conf with user and password. the error is: [LogStash::Runner] FATAL logstash.runner - The given configuration is invalid. Reason: Expected one of #, { at line 6, column 8 (byte 81) after input { input { beats { host =\> "10.8.8.53" port =\> "5044" } user =\> logstash\_internal password =\> Password1 } I followed this doc: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html) input { ... user =\> logstash\_inter…
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### Author:  [@robertchen117](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robertchen117)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/6 "2016-11-30T14:54:30Z")
Did you find the solution?
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### Author:  [@aparadka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aparadka)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/7 "2016-12-01T11:08:23Z")
how to do that? i followed the steps on that link and i'm getting this error now
> [@Add user and password and failed](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-user-and-password-and-failed/67525):
>
> I followed this doc after I installed x-pack. And I update my logstash.conf with user and password. the error is: [LogStash::Runner] FATAL logstash.runner - The given configuration is invalid. Reason: Expected one of #, { at line 6, column 8 (byte 81) after input { input { beats { host =\> "10.8.8.53" port =\> "5044" } user =\> logstash\_internal password =\> Password1 } I followed this doc: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html) input { ... user =\> logstash\_inter…
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-denied-to-es/61427/8 "2017-07-06T04:30:06Z")