Elastic searchguard auditbeat

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Hi. I've installed yet another instance of auditbeat for my SIEM. The configurations is same as other. But it can't connect to elastic because of not enough permissions (monitor/xpack/license/get).

Failed to connect to backoff(
            elasticsearch(https://192.168.192.124:9200)): 
                    Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: cannot retrieve the elasticsearch license from the /_license endpoint, Auditbeat requires the default distribution of Elasticsearch. Please make the endpoint accessible to Auditbeat so it can verify the license.: could not retrieve the license information from the cluster: 403 Forbidden: 
                    {"error":{
                            "root_cause":[
                                    {"type":"security_exception",
                                     "reason":"no permissions for [cluster:monitor/xpack/license/get] and User [name=usr_logstash, backend_roles=[], requestedTenant=null]"}
                            ]

Should I create new permissions to 'monitor/xpack/license/get'? Can I disable check xpack licence? If no, why it is working on other auditbeat instances?

2

If you are not using the default distribution of Elasticsearch you probably need to install the OSS version of Auditbeat.

3

I'm using

elasticsearch -V
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
Version: 7.3.2, Build: default/tar/1c1faf1/2019-09-06T14:40:30.409026Z, JVM: 12.0.2

Is it necessary to set auditbeat permissions (cluster:monitor/xpack/license/get) in searchguard? I'm not using any xpack modules.

4

I do not know. Have never used Searchguard.

5

i mean... Is it necessary auditbeat access to 'cluster:monitor/xpack/license/get' to work correctly? I think I don't have to access to xpack licence because I dont use xpack. Or I mistake?

6

Yes, the default distribution of Auditbeat requires license check.

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Thanks a lot.

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