# Logstash fails to connect to elasticsearch with Watcher beta 2

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-watcher-beta-2/23947
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [June 18, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-watcher-beta-2/23947 "2015-06-18T21:14:45Z")
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### Author: ![uboness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/96bed5/32.png) [@uboness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uboness)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-with-watcher-beta-2/23947/2 "2015-06-19T16:21:19Z")

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This issue most probably relates to a current known limitation with the elasticsearch output node protocol and watcher. see [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-install-watcher-logstash-cannot-join-the-cluster/1744)

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