# Filebeats issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-issue/258255>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-issue/258255 "2020-12-10T10:58:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![egS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@egS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/egS)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-issue/258255/1 "2020-12-10T10:58:34Z")

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Trying to get IBM MQ logs.  
Have success with the following commands and actions:

```auto
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.10.1-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi filebeat-7.10.1-x86_64.rpm
Modify `/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml`
sudo filebeat modules enable ibmmq

```

Get error with this command:  
`sudo filebeat setup`  
Error:

```auto
Exiting: couldn't connect to any of the configured Elasticsearch hosts. Errors: [error connecting to Elasticsearch at https://51aad838bfc644e5aa2448e96aa89f7f.eu-central-1.aws.cloud.es.io:443: 401 Unauthorized: {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elastic] for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\"","Bearer realm=\"security\"","ApiKey"]}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elastic] for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\"","Bearer realm=\"security\"","ApiKey"]}},"status":401}]

```

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**Author:** ![David\_Fachini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/david_fachini/32/78224_2.png) [@David\_Fachini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Fachini)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-issue/258255/2 "2020-12-21T22:38:45Z")

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Are you using Security in elasticsearch ? If yes you will need to provide the authentication to filebeat to work

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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:** [January 19, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-issue/258255/3 "2021-01-19T00:38:45Z")

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