# Kibana and shield authentication issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-shield-authentication-issue/36265>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-shield-authentication-issue/36265 "2015-12-03T09:34:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![el.qa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@el.qa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/el.qa)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-shield-authentication-issue/36265/1 "2015-12-03T09:34:05Z")

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I followed all the tutorials and read the documentation very carefully. I still get this error though at kibana logs though, it just doesn't show any data and i have ssl false.  
Anyone can help?  
Thank you in advance!

at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at \_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)"},"msg":"","time":"2015-11-02T12:20:03.487Z","v":0}  
{"name":"Kibana","hostname":"kibana","pid":27900,"level":60,"err":{"message":"unknown error","name":"Error","stack":"Error: unknown error\n at respond (/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:237:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector.anonymous  
(/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/node\_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at \_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)"},"msg":"","time":"2015-11-02T12:20:03.491Z","v":0}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-shield-authentication-issue/36265/2 "2015-12-05T00:17:34Z")

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What does your KB and Shield configs look like?

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**Author:** ![el.qa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@el.qa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/el.qa)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-shield-authentication-issue/36265/3 "2015-12-09T09:09:43Z")

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Oh i solved it, i didn't authenticated elastic search clusters in the celery task. That was the error.

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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 6, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-shield-authentication-issue/36265/4 "2017-07-06T14:07:04Z")

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