# Elastic search 8.6 (SSL enabled) certificate check disablement

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-8-6-ssl-enabled-certificate-check-disablement/332438>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [May 3, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-8-6-ssl-enabled-certificate-check-disablement/332438 "2023-05-03T14:11:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![easwaran.jeyaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/easwaran.jeyaraj/32/120583_2.png) [@easwaran.jeyaraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/easwaran.jeyaraj)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-8-6-ssl-enabled-certificate-check-disablement/332438/1 "2023-05-03T14:11:52Z")

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Recently we installed Elastic search 8.6 (SSL enabled) which is running as 3 node in cluster n kubernetes using the operator provided by Elastic. When we call ES from external client, after placing the Certificate (client generated) , getting unknown host Exception.  
As we are running both client & ES in same kubernetes cluster and Host level check itself is not required.

So is there a way to get rid of this error

Or is there any way to disable SSL certificate check from Elastic search?

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**Author:** ![Yang\_Wang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yang_wang/32/48857_2.png) [@Yang\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yang_Wang)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-8-6-ssl-enabled-certificate-check-disablement/332438/2 "2023-05-05T06:29:14Z")

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I assume you are interested in the SSL setting on the HTTP interface. Please refer to the documentation [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-settings.html#http-tls-ssl-settings).

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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 2, 2023, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-8-6-ssl-enabled-certificate-check-disablement/332438/3 "2023-06-02T06:29:26Z")

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