# Filebeat on windows server not connecting with SSL

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-server-not-connecting-with-ssl/201284>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-server-not-connecting-with-ssl/201284 "2019-09-26T17:27:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hursto75](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hursto75/32/8168_2.png) [@hursto75](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hursto75)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-server-not-connecting-with-ssl/201284/1 "2019-09-26T17:27:52Z")

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I have the keys specified. In the filebeats yml and it starts and runs but I get 🙂

2019/09/26 14:58:46.919313 async.go:235: ERR Failed to publish events caused by: lumberjack protocol error  
2019/09/26 14:58:46.944707 async.go:235: ERR Failed to publish events caused by: client is not connected  
2019/09/26 14:58:47.944956 output.go:92: ERR Failed to publish events: client is not connected

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**Author:** ![hursto75](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hursto75/32/8168_2.png) [@hursto75](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hursto75)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-server-not-connecting-with-ssl/201284/2 "2019-09-26T17:28:56Z")

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I have many linux servers that are connecting just fine.

Brad

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**Author:** ![hursto75](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hursto75/32/8168_2.png) [@hursto75](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hursto75)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-server-not-connecting-with-ssl/201284/3 "2019-09-26T18:33:31Z")

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On the logstash server: Sep 26 18:30:06 logstash001-mgnt-use1.mgnt-xspdev.in logstash[10081]: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: error:10000412:SSL routines:OPENSSL\_internal:SSLV3\_ALERT\_BAD\_CERTIFICATE

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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:** [October 24, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-server-not-connecting-with-ssl/201284/4 "2019-10-24T18:33:32Z")

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