Filebeat index not created

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Thanks, Stephen!
My apology, my intention was not to sound sexist :). I usually use that guys term instead of ladies and gentlemen :slight_smile:
I reduced the configuration to the following and I am still having issues;
elastic yaml

xpack.security.enabled: true
cluster.name: my-elastic-cluster
discovery.type: single-node
node.name: es-node-1
network.host: localhost
http.port: 9200

Kibana's yaml

elasticsearch.username: "kibana_system"
server.port: 5601
server.host: "localhost"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

filebeat yaml


filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths: /Users/me/Downloads/logs/mylog.log
  json.message_key: severity 
  json.keys_under_root: true
    #json.overwrite_keys: true
    #json.add_error_key: true
    #json.expand_keys: true

    #setup.template.overwrite: true
filebeat.config.modules:
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
  reload.enabled: true
  reload.period: 10s
# ======================= Elasticsearch template setting =======================
#setup.template.settings:
#index.number_of_shards: 1
setup.kibana:
output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
  template.name: filebeat
  template.path: filebeat.template.json

I also followed the instructions on Set up minimal security for Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [7.15] | Elastic and used ./bin/Elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive option. Now whenever I try to executed filebeat setup, I get

Exiting: couldn't connect to any of the configured Elasticsearch hosts. Errors: [error connecting to Elasticsearch at http://localhost:9200: 401 Unauthorized: {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication credentials for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication credentials for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""}},"status":401}]

The reason I changed the original configuration was this blog post Structured logging with Filebeat | Elastic Blog but unfortunately I am unable to proceed due the authentication error when I execute filebeat setup.

Thanks for the support.