Elastic certificate password

Hamda_A · June 16, 2026, 3:41pm

Hello,

Our Elasticsearch cluster certificates have expired, and we generated a new certificate authority and elastic certificate without a password. After uploading the new certificate to the different nodes and trying to start Elasticsearch, it fails to start with an error related to it not being able to authenticate the certificate and the password being wrong. We checked all configuration files, and no password was added either.

Did anyone run into a similar issue? Any suggestions?

covj12 · June 17, 2026, 4:36am

Were your previous certificates created with a password? When Elasticsearch fails to start after certificate renewal, remove the stale SSL password entries from the keystore and re-add them with an empty value.

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