# How to use SSL between Filebeat 5 and Kafka 0.10? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [August 2, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-ssl-between-filebeat-5-and-kafka-0-10/57023 "2016-08-02T14:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tsury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Tsury](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tsury)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-ssl-between-filebeat-5-and-kafka-0-10/57023/1 "2016-08-02T14:43:21Z")
Hi. I am new to Filebeat and Kafka and managed to set them together just fine. I now want to add SSL and don't know where to begin. I can set Kafka to work with SSL as explained in the [official Apache documentation](http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#security_ssl), but don't know how to configure my Filebeat client to actually use it. I mean, which file do I send from my Kafka server to my Filebeat client and what do I set exactly in the Kafka section in the Filebeat yaml config? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-ssl-between-filebeat-5-and-kafka-0-10/57023/2 "2016-08-03T09:29:22Z")
Here are the docs for the config options: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/kafka-output.html#\_tls\_3](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/kafka-output.html#_tls_3) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-ssl-between-filebeat-5-and-kafka-0-10/57023/3 "2016-08-23T14:43:38Z")
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