# HTTPS Support?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [May 28, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525 "2015-05-28T23:05:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![VincentBiret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/54ee81/32.png) [@VincentBiret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VincentBiret)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525/1 "2015-05-28T23:05:05Z")

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Hi everyone,

Do you plan to support HTTPS sniffing, as wireshark does ?

Thanks,

Vincent.

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525/2 "2015-05-29T08:17:07Z")

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No plans at the moment, but we've only defined our own roadmap just for the very near future.

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**Author:** ![winston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@winston](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/winston)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525/3 "2015-06-14T14:44:12Z")

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Most key exchange algorithms used in TLS 1.2 are nowadays based on Diffie Hellman and make it 'impossible' to decode HTTPS traffic for a sniffer. It would need to have access to the master keys for the specific session, only the server private key is not sufficient.

Hence implementing TLS decoding in packetbeat is probably a dead end street. If you have some kind of HTTPS termination point in your infra (e.g. a load balancer or proxy) you can could try to capture behind the proxy.

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**Author:** ![VincentBiret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/54ee81/32.png) [@VincentBiret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VincentBiret)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525/4 "2015-06-14T16:08:28Z")

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It was purely for internal use, to analyse services using inter-regions communications on AWS which use HTTPS using self signed TLS certificates, ex: logstash-forwarder

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/https-support/1525/5 "2017-07-05T21:59:11Z")

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