# Can the filebeat clients do Kerberos authentication

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-filebeat-clients-do-kerberos-authentication/91875>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-filebeat-clients-do-kerberos-authentication/91875 "2017-07-05T10:13:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![venky1987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@venky1987](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venky1987)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-filebeat-clients-do-kerberos-authentication/91875/1 "2017-07-05T10:13:55Z")

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            Can the filebeat clients do Kerberos authentication to Kafka brokers?
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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-filebeat-clients-do-kerberos-authentication/91875/2 "2017-07-05T12:18:28Z")

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No, the client library we're using is not supporting kerberos yet.

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**Author:** ![venky1987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@venky1987](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venky1987)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-filebeat-clients-do-kerberos-authentication/91875/3 "2017-07-05T13:57:17Z")

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Thank you for the reply!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-filebeat-clients-do-kerberos-authentication/91875/4 "2017-08-02T13:57:33Z")

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