# Heartbeat Config advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** heartbeat\ **Created:** [November 6, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611 "2018-11-06T19:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Francois\_013](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/francois_013/32/37046_2.png) [@Francois\_013](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francois_013)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/1 "2018-11-06T19:55:11Z")
Hi, I’m trying to configure a heartbeat http monitor to monitor a https URL protected by a client certificate. But it seems that I cannot get it working in a proper way. I’ve tried serval configs listed below: Config 1: heartbeat.monitors: - type: http urls: ["[https://URL.url](https://URL.url)"] schedule: '@every 10s' ssl: certificate\_authorities: ['ca.crt'] certificate: ['cert.crt'] key: ['key.key'] This results in that I can start the service but the http monitor fails with: ERROR beater/manager.go:155 failed to load monitor tasks: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'ssl.certificate' (source:'C:\Program Files\Heartbeat\heartbeat.yml') when initializing monitor http(0) Config 2: heartbeat.monitors: - type: http urls: ["[https://URL.url](https://URL.url)"] schedule: '@every 10s' ssl: certificate\_authorities: “ca.crt” certificate: “cert.crt” key: “'key.key” This results in a complete failure of the service. (refuses to start) Config 3: (Only using the CA as authenticator) heartbeat.monitors: - type: http urls: ["[https://url.url](https://url.url)"] schedule: '@every 10s' ssl: certificate\_authorities: ['CA.crt'] This results in a start of the service and the http monitor functions. But I’m getting a response: “x509: certificate signed by unknown authority” Can somebody point out what I’m doing wrong? Many thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/2 "2018-11-07T21:27:21Z")
Thanks for the report. I've created an issue to track this: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/8979](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/8979). I'll post updates there ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/3 "2018-11-08T04:00:08Z")
@Francois I added a test case for this, which we needed [in #8984](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8984), but it wound up showing that client auth works. For case 2, can you provide any error logs showing what specifically did not work? ---
**Author:** ![ramkumargopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a587f6/32.png) [@ramkumargopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramkumargopal)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/4 "2018-11-15T08:35:03Z")
i have a similar issue when i monitor https URL , http works fine . ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/5 "2018-11-16T17:24:27Z")
Hmmmm, can you validate that this client cert works? Have you tried testing it with cURL for instance? ---
**Author:** ![ramkumargopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a587f6/32.png) [@ramkumargopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramkumargopal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/6 "2018-11-17T03:21:08Z")
Tried disableing ssl verification ssl.verification\_mode: none and it worked ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-config-advice/155611/7 "2018-12-15T03:21:11Z")
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