# Is it me or logstash doesn't support special chars for monitoring password?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 9, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744 "2018-01-09T18:20:43Z")
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### Author:  [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/1 "2018-01-09T18:20:43Z")
I have a password with ! and @ chars and for the life of me I cannot get it to connect to xpack for monitoring. I keep getting 401.
I switched to a password that does not use ! and @ and it worked...
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### Author:  [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/2 "2018-01-09T20:33:30Z")
Ok it seems that ! doesn't work. This is for the XPACK\_MONITORING\_ELASTICSEARCH\_PASSWORD environment variable.
The rest of the cluster works fine with !
Also the elastic output plugin seems to be ok according to the logs.
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### Author:  [@guyboertje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guyboertje)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/3 "2018-01-10T14:15:14Z")
I will check the code.
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### Author:  [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/4 "2018-01-10T23:30:38Z")
Cool
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### Author:  [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/5 "2018-01-21T15:22:19Z")
Hi, have you found anything?
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### Author:  [@guyboertje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guyboertje)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/6 "2018-01-24T14:24:48Z")
Not from my bit of research so far - still looking, other Dev duties have held me up sorry
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### Author:  [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/7 "2018-01-24T16:00:26Z")
All good.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-me-or-logstash-doesnt-support-special-chars-for-monitoring-password/114744/8 "2018-02-21T16:00:30Z")
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