# ELK certificates update

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-certificates-update/288211>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-certificates-update/288211 "2021-11-02T09:31:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rodri.gz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@rodri.gz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodri.gz)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-certificates-update/288211/1 "2021-11-02T09:31:38Z")

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Hello !

I have my cluster secured and several agents connecting to elastic via https with .pem certificates. When these certificates expire should I update all the certificates of all my agents in all my nodes?

thanks in advanced!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-certificates-update/288211/2 "2021-11-02T21:13:10Z")

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Yes, you will need to.

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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:** [November 30, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-certificates-update/288211/3 "2021-11-30T21:13:41Z")

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