# Kibana asks to select a certificate

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [April 28, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482 "2021-04-28T08:06:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Alexandros888](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Alexandros888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandros888)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482/1 "2021-04-28T08:06:23Z")

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Hello,

I have recently enabled http-level TLS encryption in my elastic cluster. It seems to work fine except something that really confuses me. I cant understand why it happens and also how i can solve it not to happen :).

More specifically, when i try from any browser to access my kibana page, it asks me to select a certificate. I dont even understand what the 3 choices of the certificates are.

 ![problem](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/9/699f08bab9e78a4a76c55117fe059fe6f8921fcc.png)

Why is this happening and how can i resolve this?

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**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482/2 "2021-04-29T05:26:38Z")

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Running on IIS or Linux? Other?

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**Author:** ![Alexandros888](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Alexandros888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandros888)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482/3 "2021-04-29T06:19:16Z")

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Thank you a lot for your reply:

It is:

NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"  
VERSION="7.9 (Maipo)"

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**Author:** ![legoguy1000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/legoguy1000/32/54301_2.png) [@legoguy1000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/legoguy1000)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482/4 "2021-05-01T21:34:01Z")

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It looks like you've setup PKI auth requiring a client certificate. Can u post your elasticsearch and kibana configs?

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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:** [May 29, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-asks-to-select-a-certificate/271482/5 "2021-05-29T21:34:48Z")

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