Filebeat to Logstash Basic Authentication

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Hello,

I'm using a typical setup with Filebeat agents running on different Windows clients and Logstash and Elasticsearch setup on a separate server (Windows). I'm using the latest version 7.5.

I need to configure basic authentication from Filebeat to Logstash.
This option is available for Elasticsearch:
output.elasticsearch:
#Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
#protocol: "https"
#username: "elastic"
#password: "changeme"

but not for Logstash. So, how do I configure basic authentication between Filebeat and Logstash in that case.

Thanks in advance,
Jy

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The beats protocol used to communicate between Filebeat and Logstash does not support basic authentication. It does however support PKI based authentication, where you'd use a client certificate on the Filebeat side, and set up the Logstash input to require a client certificate for its encrypted channel. See the documentation for more details.

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