# Filebeat wont post log messages to Elastic

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-post-log-messages-to-elastic/201872
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-post-log-messages-to-elastic/201872 "2019-10-01T21:25:26Z")
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### Author: ![Wanderer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wanderer/32/55140_2.png) [@Wanderer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wanderer)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-post-log-messages-to-elastic/201872/1 "2019-10-01T21:25:26Z")

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This is the error we get. Any thoughts?

filebeat: 2019-10-01T17:19:04.468-0400#011ERROR#011pipeline/output.go:100#011Failed to connect to backoff(elasticsearch([https://server.name.com:1234](https://server.name.com:1234))): Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: failed to create alias: {"error":"Incorrect HTTP method for uri [/\<filebeat-7.3.2-{now/d}-000001\>] and method [PUT], allowed: [POST]","status":405}: 405 Method Not Allowed: {"error":"Incorrect HTTP method for uri [/\<filebeat-7.3.2-{now/d}-000001\>] and method [PUT], allowed: [POST]","status":405}

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### Author: ![juka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@juka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juka)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-post-log-messages-to-elastic/201872/2 "2019-10-11T09:28:44Z")

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Hey,

are you sure you can connect to your elasticsearch instance from filebeat?  
It says "Failed to connect to backoff(elasticsearch..."

"failed to create the alias" is probably a follow up on the missing connection to ES.

Could you share parts of your filebeat config?

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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: [November 8, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-post-log-messages-to-elastic/201872/3 "2019-11-08T09:28:45Z")

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