Can not convert 'object' into 'string'

Elastic Stack Beats
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Getting these errors, did a ton of searching around but no luck. Running bitnam elki vm on debian. and filebeat on centos7.

2017-08-14T21:44:38Z INFO Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat] Config path: [/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/var/log/filebeat]
2017-08-14T21:44:38Z INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.5.1
2017-08-14T21:44:38Z ERR failed to initialize logstash plugin as output: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'output.logstash.ssl.certificate' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml')
2017-08-14T21:44:38Z CRIT Exiting: error initializing publisher: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'output.logstash.ssl.certificate' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml')

filebeat.prospectors:
  • input_type: log
    paths:
    • /var/log/httpd/*log
    • /var/log/secure
    • /var/log/messages

#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:

The Logstash hosts

hosts: ["sub.domain.com:5044"]
bulk_max_size: 1024
ssl.certificate: ["/mypath/logstash-forwarder.crt"]
ssl.key: ["/mypath/logstash-forwarder.key"]

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When setup without ssl on filebeat/logstash I get this error on filebeat.

ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): dial tcp my.ip.addr.ess:5044: i/o timeout

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Hi @prophoto,

The problem is that you are setting an array as value for ssl.certificate, while Filebeat expects just a string. For details on how SSL is configured (across all beats), check https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-output-ssl.html

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So on filebeat I only need the certificate, right?

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OK so three more hours later all I had to do was remove the [] around the key and crt paths. Now Im getting ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): x509: certificate signed by unknown authority, help! Using self signed cert.

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Try by adding the cert to certificate_authorities, or marking it as trusted in your system

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Working! On to the next step to get elk working as we need it to. Thanks

For anyone else this was my final config

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