# Help in securing communications between client and elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 2, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955 "2021-02-02T09:58:09Z")
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### Author: ![Priya\_Vijay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/priya_vijay/32/82974_2.png) [@Priya\_Vijay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priya_Vijay)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955/1 "2021-02-02T09:58:09Z")

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I have a question and appreciate any guidance. I have an elasticsearch instance without x-pack enabled but it is secure, mTLS is enabled. How can I connect to this elastic from another client like elastalert? How can I generate client certificate and key?

thanks

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955/2 "2021-02-03T03:58:37Z")

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How have you configured TLS if you aren't using the inbuilt Security features?

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### Author: ![Priya\_Vijay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/priya_vijay/32/82974_2.png) [@Priya\_Vijay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priya_Vijay)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955/3 "2021-02-03T05:32:53Z")

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This is elasticsearch initialized using clusterlogging on openshift cloud platform. security is enabled using Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955/4 "2021-02-03T05:41:11Z")

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You'll need to ask over on their forums then, we don't support their fork sorry.

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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: [March 3, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-securing-communications-between-client-and-elasticsearch/262955/5 "2021-03-03T05:41:57Z")

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