# Logstash unable to establish SSL connection to Elastic Cloud Enterprise

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-unable-to-establish-ssl-connection-to-elastic-cloud-enterprise/74050>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 6, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-unable-to-establish-ssl-connection-to-elastic-cloud-enterprise/74050 "2017-02-06T11:49:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-unable-to-establish-ssl-connection-to-elastic-cloud-enterprise/74050/1 "2017-02-06T11:49:26Z")

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Logstash version 5.2.0  
Elastic Cloud Enterprise version 1.0.0 alpha4

I am trying to connect to ECE Proxy node using ssl (tcp/9243 https) but logstash seems to not start ssl handshake against the proxy node. I would like to get help to solve this problem.

Below is the logstash log. I am directly connecting from logstash to proxy node without using loadbalancer.

```
[2017-02-06T20:34:45,813][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Running health check to see if an Elasticsearch connection is working {:healthcheck_url=>https://elastic:xxxxxx@f59949dc580e46b7b699aa231a01129e.40.118.214.174.xip.io:9243/, :path=>"/"}
[2017-02-06T20:34:46,036][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Attempted to resurrect connection to dead ES instance, but got an error. {:url=>#<URI::HTTPS:0x124bf7b URL:https://elastic:xxxxxx@f59949dc580e46b7b699aa231a01129e.40.118.214.174.xip.io:9243/>, :error_type=>LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::HttpClient::Pool::HostUnreachableError, :error=>"Elasticsearch Unreachable: [https://elastic:xxxxxx@f59949dc580e46b7b699aa231a01129e.40.118.214.174.xip.io:9243/][Manticore::ClientProtocolException] Received fatal alert: handshake_failure"}

```

By looking at the packet capture , I have expected **Client Hello** sent from logstash to proxy node after tcp 3 way handshake but did not happen.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/7230f759c6426d9f67685ebf04d056a40a845265.png)

Below is my snippet of my logstash configuration

```
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["https://f59949dc580e46b7b699aa231a01129e.40.118.214.174.xip.io:9243"]
    index => "%{[@metadata][index]}-%{[@metadata][platformdate]}"
    document_type => "log"
    ssl_certificate_verification => "false"

    user => "elastic"
    password => "HGC9Jw3VLNWsleuJdm0YGg=="
  }

```

When I connected to tcp/9200 port without ssl connection it worked properly so network connection seems to be valid. Am I missing anything to enable the ssl handshake?

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-unable-to-establish-ssl-connection-to-elastic-cloud-enterprise/74050/2 "2017-03-06T11:49:25Z")

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