# Getting "Unable to revive connection" on SSL-configured setup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 27, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167 "2016-10-27T16:34:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZillaG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zillag/32/10505_2.png) [@ZillaG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ZillaG)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167/1 "2016-10-27T16:34:04Z")

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Kibana v4.5.4  
ES v2.4.1

I see similar issues on the forum, but they pertain to an [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200) connection.

I have Elasticsearch running through SSL, and I can do this

```
curl -I https://es_ip_addr:9200 --cacert /path_to_cert/my_cert.pem 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 0

```

However, I see these in my kibana.log file

```
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-10-27T16:30:49+00:00","tags":["warning","elasticsearch"],"pid":5611,"message":"Unable to revive connection: https://es_ip_addr:9200/"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-10-27T16:30:49+00:00","tags":["warning","elasticsearch"],"pid":5611,"message":"No living connections"}

```

Here is my kibana.yml file, with most of the comments removed to ease reading.

```
# The Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.url: "https://es_ip_addr:9200"

# username and pw
elasticsearch.username: "kibanaserver"
elasticsearch.password: "pw"

# If you need to provide a CA certificate for your Elasticsearch instance, put
# the path of the pem file here.
elasticsearch.ssl.ca: /path_to_cert/my_cert.pem

# If you would like to send the log output to a file you can set the path below.
logging.dest: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log

```

What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![ZillaG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zillag/32/10505_2.png) [@ZillaG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ZillaG)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167/2 "2016-10-27T17:08:58Z")

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I do see these logs, which are earlier than logs I see above

```
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-10-27T16:37:36+00:00","tags":["status","plugin:spyModes","info"],"pid":5747,"name":"plugin:spyModes","state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-10-27T16:37:36+00:00","tags":["error","elasticsearch"],"pid":5747,"message":"Request error, retrying -- self signed certificate in certificate chain"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-10-27T16:37:36+00:00","tags":["status","plugin:statusPage","info"],"pid":5747,"name":"plugin:statusPage","state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}
```

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**Author:** ![ZillaG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zillag/32/10505_2.png) [@ZillaG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ZillaG)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167/3 "2016-10-27T20:35:04Z")

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In my case, I was using the SG-SSL plugin, and forgot to set the ES CA path per this page [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-docs/blob/master/kibana.md](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-docs/blob/master/kibana.md). Once I did the problem went away.

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167/4 "2016-10-28T12:43:29Z")

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Hi Zilla,

Thanks for updating with your solution!

Regards,  
Lee

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-unable-to-revive-connection-on-ssl-configured-setup/64167/5 "2017-07-06T13:35:22Z")

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