HTTP error 401 in node: 401 Unauthorized

Elastic Stack Beats
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Elastic 6.1.1
Metricbeat 6.2.2

I have metricbeat on an elasticsearch server and when I check kibana all I see are errors:

HTTP error 401 in node: 401 Unauthorized

When I view the logs I don't see anything to indicate the API cannot be reached and the rest of the logs populate just fine.

My module is configured as:

#------------------------------ Elasticsearch ------------------------------#
metricbeat.modules:
- module: elasticsearch
  metricsets: ["node", "node_stats"]
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

When I use the credentials in the output block everything works. And since the system metric logs make it it appears that I can auth to elasticsearch for bulk indexing. Do I need to specify creds in the module? I do have xpack enabled.

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If you X-Pack security enabled then you'll need to configure the module with the appropriate credentials and/or TLS settings.

metricbeat.modules:
- module: elasticsearch
  metricsets: ["node", "node_stats"]
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
  username: user
  password: secret
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Thank you. The documentation and example yml file didn't specify. I appreciate the I fo. I'll put it there and test. It would be nice if it could inherit the info from the output.

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