# Encrypt Password In Filebeat Yml
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 19, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743 "2024-06-19T14:24:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743/1 "2024-06-19T14:24:07Z")
Hi Team,
Could you please help me how we can encrypt the plain text password which we are mentioning in filebeat.yml file.
Thanks,
Debasis
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743/2 "2024-06-19T14:26:13Z")
> [@Debasis\_Mallick](#):
>
> Could you please help me how we can encrypt the plain text password which we are mentioning in filebeat.yml file.
You can use a keystore as mentioned in the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/keystore.html).
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### Author:  [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743/3 "2024-06-27T10:20:40Z")
@leandrojmp Is this option works if we are using basic licensing ELK stack.
Thanks,
Debasis
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743/4 "2024-06-30T15:17:24Z")
@Debasis_Mallick Yes keystore is available in Basic license
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### Author:  [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743/5 "2024-07-02T05:31:40Z")
@stephenb I had executed the key store command as below but it did not create any key store in `paths.data` folder which is mentioned in filebeat.yml.
```auto
[root@cb-4 ~]# filebeat keystore create
Created filebeat keystore
```
Below is the snippet from filebeat.yml file.
```auto
type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /cbdata/elastic/cb4lv1/cb4transv4/*.csv # path to your CSV file
exclude_lines: ['^\"\"'] # header line
pipeline: parse_elastic_data_v2
harvestor_buffer_size: 40960000
close_eof: true
close_inactive: 10s
```
Below is the location of `paths.data` folder.
```auto
[root@cb-4 cb4transv4]# pwd
/cbdata/elastic/cb4lv1/cb4transv4
[root@cb-4 cb4transv4]# ls -ltr
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 957 Jun 26 17:20 2023-07-09_17118023455.csv
[root@cb-4 cb4transv4]#
```
Please suggest if I am missing anything.
Thanks,
Debasis
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypt-password-in-filebeat-yml/361743/6 "2024-07-02T15:37:13Z")
> [@Debasis\_Mallick](#):
>
> `/cbdata/elastic/cb4lv1/cb4transv4`
That is not the `path.data` unless you made changes
`path.data` is not where your source logs are it is where filebeat keeps state data and other items
See Here:
> **[Directory layout | Filebeat Reference \[8.14\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/directory-layout.html)**
If you installed with package
`/var/lib/filebeat`