How to configure metricbeat k8s to use ssl connection to ES

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

Hi @Mihai-CMM
You have to get the CA from when you created Elasticsearch and then make the CA available to metricbeat via mounts

Perhaps take a look at this post. I think this is a pretty good example

Filebeat running on Kubernetes connected to Elasticsearch using SSL

I would like to use filebeat on Kubernetes and connect it to a secured Elasticsearch server, using certificates. I did a search to find how to do this but only found an un-answered related question. After some test I got it, so I will share my findings to help anybody else. These are the steps: Follow the original documentation to download the yaml file. As shown on the documentation, update this file with the correct details about the Elasticsearch server: hostname, port, user and passw…