# Kafka Connection Failure
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connection-failure/334612
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [May 29, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connection-failure/334612 "2023-05-29T18:26:36Z")
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### Author:  [@varunsingla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varunsingla)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connection-failure/334612/1 "2023-05-29T18:26:37Z")
I am getting the following error when I am trying to configure **output.kafka** on my filebeat configuration:
"log.logger":"kafka","log.origin":{"file.name":"kafka/client.go","file.line":406},"message":"**Kafka publish failed with: kafka: couldn't fetch broker metadata (check that your client and broker are using the same encryption and authentication settings**)","service.name":"filebeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}
My **output.kafka** configs:
output.kafka:
enabled: true
hosts: ["server1:9093", "server2:9093", "server2:9093"]
topic: dev\_core
ssl.enabled: true
ssl.certificate\_authorities: ["/opt/filebeat/CA.pem"]
ssl.certificate: "/opt/filebeat/NessCertificate.pem"
ssl.key: "/opt/filebeat/NessCertificate.key"
ssl.key\_passphrase: 'aabbababababababa'
**Kindly Help**
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connection-failure/334612/2 "2023-06-26T20:27:13Z")
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