# Elastic Agent's elasticsearch integration SSL settings does not work with self-signed cert

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-security, metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306 "2023-05-12T13:02:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kelvin\_Chan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kelvin_chan/32/119470_2.png) [@Kelvin\_Chan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kelvin_Chan)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306/1 "2023-05-12T13:02:35Z")

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I uses elastic agent to monitor elasticsearch, kibana, logstash and postgresql. Elastic Agent can send all monitoring data to elasticsearch excluding elasticsearch metrics data.

This is my elasticsearch integration metrics settings

```json
 "elasticsearch-elasticsearch/metrics": {
      "enabled": true,
      "vars": {
        "password": "...",
        "hosts": [
          "https://es01:9200"
        ],
        "scope": "cluster",
        "leaderelection": false,
        "ssl": "verification_mode: none",
        "username": "..."
      },

```

This is my cluster status and logs

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/4/14636d10676a48cbcebd45af791a71acf2304887.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/e/ce4abbd5ed40ac92676af3cea3bb4b45a8e52a1e.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/b/2bf1b16a11242c750febb9f0bc60584c5295cc25.png)

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**Author:** ![Kelvin\_Chan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kelvin_chan/32/119470_2.png) [@Kelvin\_Chan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kelvin_Chan)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306/2 "2023-05-13T07:10:51Z")

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After i disabled elasticsearch integration metrics, i did not receive any warnings and errors anymore.

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**Author:** ![Kelvin\_Chan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kelvin_chan/32/119470_2.png) [@Kelvin\_Chan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kelvin_Chan)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306/3 "2023-05-13T10:27:48Z")

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Already set all SSL settings in elasticsearch integration, but it did not fix the problem. Then i chose to follow [How do I add a CA root certificate inside a docker image?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42292444/how-do-i-add-a-ca-root-certificate-inside-a-docker-image)

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306/4 "2023-05-20T00:03:43Z")

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Hi @Kelvin_Chan

> [@Kelvin\_Chan](#):
>
> This is my elasticsearch integration metrics settings  
> ` "ssl": "verification_mode: none",`

I think it should perhaps look like

```auto
"elasticsearch-elasticsearch/metrics": {
      "enabled": true,
      "vars": {
        "hosts": [
          "http://localhost:9200"
        ],
        "scope": "node",
        "ssl": "verification_mode: \"none\"",
        "leaderelection": false
      },

```

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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:** [June 17, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agents-elasticsearch-integration-ssl-settings-does-not-work-with-self-signed-cert/333306/5 "2023-06-17T00:04:15Z")

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