I am trying to connect to IBM Database for ES service from filebeat. Since ES is SSL connection for which I can get hosts,username,password and base64 encoded certificate. I have converted base64 in .pem format and passed to filebeat and gets below error: ERROR pipeline/output.go:100 Failed to c…

Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: cannot retrieve the elasticsearch license: error from server, response code: 500

ishu52 (Shubham Sureka) June 14, 2019, 5:13am 3

Elastic search seems to be running fine. I guess filebeat is failing while connecting.

Is it because of SSL base64 string ? Do i need some other parameter as well ?

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