# Getting error after injecting gcs credentials in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [April 1, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989 "2021-04-01T07:21:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![chandu2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chandu2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandu2)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/1 "2021-04-01T07:21:44Z")

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I am deploying ECK : 1.3.0 and elasticsearch version 7.9.0 in GKE. When I tried to inject secret called gcs-crdentials, elasticsearch nodes were getting restarted, but on crashloop back state.

```auto
secureSettings:
   - secretName: gcs-credentials

```

Below were the logs that I am getting

```auto
Caused by: java.io.UncheckedIOException: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Illegal unquoted character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 10)): has to be escaped using backslash to be included in string value",
" at [Source: (ByteArrayInputStream); line: 5, column: 47]"

```

Can anyone please help me why I am getting this error.

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**Author:** ![chandu2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chandu2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandu2)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/2 "2021-04-02T02:52:48Z")

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Did anyone has any idea?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/3 "2021-04-02T06:28:56Z")

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**Author:** ![chandu2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chandu2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandu2)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/4 "2021-04-02T12:02:04Z")

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Okay. I will follow it. Sorry for the inconvience. But I didn't open multiple topics nor pinged anyone directly. Anyway thanks.

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**Author:** ![idanmo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/idanmo/32/50092_2.png) [@idanmo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/idanmo)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/5 "2021-04-05T06:48:04Z")

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> [@chandu2](#):
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> `Illegal unquoted character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 10))`

Hi,  
This could be related to a malformed gcs-credentials JSON.  
Please refer to [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/1.3/k8s-snapshots.html#k8s-secure-settings) ECK documentation page where there's an example of the gcs-credentials JSON and how to create the secret. Also make sure that the JSON is valid.

If you are still experiencing that error, please provide more details (the full stack trace, how you create the secret, its contents w/o the actual keys etc.)

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**Author:** ![chandu2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chandu2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandu2)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/6 "2021-04-05T07:46:32Z")

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Thanks @idanmo , I have given the corrupted credentials. It helps.

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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:** [May 3, 2021, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-after-injecting-gcs-credentials-in-elasticsearch/268989/7 "2021-05-03T07:47:04Z")

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