# Filbeat 7.4 Kafka Input with Kafka SSL Enabled

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filbeat-7-4-kafka-input-with-kafka-ssl-enabled/207009>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 7, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filbeat-7-4-kafka-input-with-kafka-ssl-enabled/207009 "2019-11-07T21:16:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![a\_pel73](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_pel73/32/48475_2.png) [@a\_pel73](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a_pel73)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filbeat-7-4-kafka-input-with-kafka-ssl-enabled/207009/1 "2019-11-07T21:16:55Z")

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Hi,  
My use case is to grab data from Kafka topic using Filebeat. I'm trying to implement Filebeat with Kafka Inputs. Following the document [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.4/filebeat-input-kafka.html). However my Kafka is SSL enabled, is Filebeat currently not supported to connect to Kafka with SSL? I don't see any configuration to pass Trustore and Keystore for the the Input?

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**Author:** ![faec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/faec/32/46988_2.png) [@faec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/faec)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filbeat-7-4-kafka-input-with-kafka-ssl-enabled/207009/2 "2019-11-15T14:01:26Z")

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The kafka input should work fine with SSL: it has the same SSL configuration options as most outputs and e.g. the TCP input. For details on the settings, see [this doc page](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-ssl.html) -- in the kafka input configuration you would include `ssl.enabled: true` and then whatever other specific settings you need in your case.

Thanks for pointing this out though, the SSL page should be linked directly from the Kafka input -- I'll update the documentation page.

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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:** [December 13, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filbeat-7-4-kafka-input-with-kafka-ssl-enabled/207009/3 "2019-12-13T14:01:32Z")

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