# Change Elasticsearch and Kibana communication certificate

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communication-certificate/324000>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communication-certificate/324000 "2023-01-26T08:16:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kosala\_Randika\_Paran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosala_randika_paran/32/112225_2.png) [@Kosala\_Randika\_Paran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosala_Randika_Paran)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communication-certificate/324000/1 "2023-01-26T08:16:24Z")

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Hi All,

Our certificates which are assign to Elasticsearch and Kibana are expired and seem like self sign certs are there, so I would appreciate that if anyone can guide how to do that?

We have 3 ES and 1 Kibana servers (As well as 2 Logstash servers)

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**Author:** ![Ayush\_Mathur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayush_mathur/32/77134_2.png) [@Ayush\_Mathur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ayush_Mathur)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communication-certificate/324000/2 "2023-01-26T08:19:59Z")

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Hi @Kosala_Randika_Paran , you can follow the step by step guide from Elastic to configure SSL again on you stack: [Set up basic security for the Elastic Stack plus secured HTTPS traffic | Elasticsearch Guide [8.6] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-basic-setup-https.html)

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**Author:** ![Kosala\_Randika\_Paran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosala_randika_paran/32/112225_2.png) [@Kosala\_Randika\_Paran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosala_Randika_Paran)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communication-certificate/324000/3 "2023-01-26T10:46:49Z")

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Thank you for the info, since I am new to ELK can you guide step by step since this article bit tuff to understand for me.

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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:** [February 23, 2023, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communication-certificate/324000/4 "2023-02-23T10:47:20Z")

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