# Metricbeat 6.4.1 - config test gives false ok **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [October 18, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-4-1-config-test-gives-false-ok/153033 "2018-10-18T15:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ariemenschneider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ariemenschneider/32/33564_2.png) [@ariemenschneider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariemenschneider)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-4-1-config-test-gives-false-ok/153033/1 "2018-10-18T15:25:32Z")
Hi, I'm trying to set up Metricbeat dashboards in our Kibana, but I'm getting authorization failures: ``` metricbeat setup --dashboards Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable) Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to /api/status fails: . Response: {"statusCode":401,"error":"Unauthorized","message":"[security_exception] unable to authenticate user [] for REST request [/_xpack/security/_authenticate], with { header={ WWW-Authenticate=\"Basic realm=\\\"security\\\" charset=\\\"UTF-8\\\"\" } }"} ``` My Metricbeat config is: ``` [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# metricbeat export config fields: env: production logging: level: info metricbeat: config: modules: path: /etc/metricbeat/modules.d/*.yml reload: enabled: false output: logstash: hosts: - '[2a00:e400:xx::xx]:10104' path: config: /etc/metricbeat data: /var/lib/metricbeat home: /usr/share/metricbeat logs: /var/log/metricbeat setup: kibana: host: https://xalzplvapxx.xxx.net:5601 password: xxxx setup: dashboards: index: os-xxx-metricbeat-* ssl: certificate_authorities: - /etc/kibana/certs/xxx.net-wildcard.ca.crt user: xxxx template: settings: _source: enabled: false index: codec: best_compression number_of_shards: 1 tags: - ELK - kibana ``` Checking with curl, I don't get authentication errors: ``` [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# curl -k -u xxxx -p https://xalzplvapxx.xxx.net:5601/api/status Enter host password for user 'xxxx': {"name":"kibana.xxx.net","uuid":"21e470b6-439d-4a1d-a78b-4edb1657d500","version":{"number":"6.3.1","build_hash":"cb8398243cee7be0dddd118cd657d1f17be4e4be","build_number":17276,"build_snapshot":false},"status":{"overall":{"state":"green","title":"Green","nickname":"Looking good","icon":"success","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.451Z"},"statuses":[{"id":"plugin:kibana@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.451Z"},{"id":"plugin:elasticsearch@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.213Z"},{"id":"plugin:xpack_main@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:searchprofiler@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:tilemap@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:watcher@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:license_management@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.505Z"},{"id":"plugin:index_management@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:timelion@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.610Z"},{"id":"plugin:graph@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:monitoring@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.614Z"},{"id":"plugin:security@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:grokdebugger@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:dashboard_mode@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.644Z"},{"id":"plugin:logstash@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"},{"id":"plugin:console@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.653Z"},{"id":"plugin:console_extensions@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.662Z"},{"id":"plugin:metrics@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:03.664Z"},{"id":"plugin:reporting@6.3.1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-10-16T10:00:04.267Z"}]},"metrics":{"last_updated":"2018-10-18T15:10:28.585Z","collection_interval_in_millis":5000,"uptime_in_millis":191433466,"process":{"mem":{"heap_max_in_bytes":138051584,"heap_used_in_bytes":119806920}},"os":{"cpu":{"load_average":{"1m":0.1767578125,"5m":0.08447265625,"15m":0.06103515625}},"cgroup":{"cpuacct":{"control_group":"/","usage_nanos":119891068365322},"cpu":{"control_group":"/","cfs_period_micros":100000,"cfs_quota_micros":-1,"stat":{"number_of_elapsed_periods":0,"number_of_times_throttled":0,"time_throttled_nanos":0}}}},"response_times":{"avg_in_millis":null,"max_in_millis":0},"requests":{"total":0,"disconnects":0,"status_codes":{}},"concurrent_connections":0}} ``` I'm using Metricbeat 6.4.2, although the Elastic Stack is still at version 6.3.1. In the Elasticsearch Log I see a Active Directory authentication error, even if I use the elastic user in the metricbeat config: `[2018-10-18T16:47:46,702][WARN][o.e.x.s.a.AuthenticationService] [xalzplvdbxx.xxx.de] Authentication to realm active_directory failed - authenticate failed (Caused by LDAPException(resultCode=49 (invalid credentials), errorMessage='80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09042F, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 52e, v2580', diagnosticMessage='80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09042F, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 52e, v2580'))` This is puzzling to me, as the Native Realm has order 0 and the AD Realm order 5. Apart from that, everything is working as expected. Can somebody point me in the right direction? ---
**Author:** ![ariemenschneider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ariemenschneider/32/33564_2.png) [@ariemenschneider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariemenschneider)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-4-1-config-test-gives-false-ok/153033/2 "2018-10-19T09:28:20Z")
I've found the error in my config. I have used ``` setup.kibana.user ``` instead of ``` setup.kibana.username ``` Unfortunately, a ``` metricbeat test config ``` told me that this config would be ok. ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-4-1-config-test-gives-false-ok/153033/3 "2018-10-20T18:12:23Z")
Hi @ariemenschneider 🙂 I'm glad that you found the solution. Do you mind to file us an issue reproducing the problem with `test config` command, please? Best regards ---
**Author:** ![ariemenschneider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ariemenschneider/32/33564_2.png) [@ariemenschneider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariemenschneider)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-4-1-config-test-gives-false-ok/153033/4 "2018-10-22T12:20:46Z")
Hi Mario, thanks for looking into this. To reproduce: ``` [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# grep setup metricbeat.yml setup.template.settings: # options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command. #setup.dashboards.enabled: false #setup.dashboards.url: setup.kibana: setup.dashboards.index: "os-xxx-metricbeat-*" setup.dashboards.always_kibana: true setup.kibana.username: "ariemenschneider" setup.kibana.password: "${ariemenschneider_password}" setup.kibana.ssl.enabled: true # `setup.kibana.host` options. [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# metricbeat test config path.config=/etc/metricbeat Config OK [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# ``` This is a working config and everything is fine... ``` [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# grep setup metricbeat.yml setup.template.settings: # options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command. #setup.dashboards.enabled: false #setup.dashboards.url: setup.kibana: setup.dashboards.index: "os-xxx-metricbeat-*" setup.dashboards.always_kibana: true setup.kibana.user: "ariemenschneider" setup.kibana.password: "${ariemenschneider_password}" setup.kibana.ssl.enabled: true # `setup.kibana.host` options. [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# metricbeat test config path.config=/etc/metricbeat Config OK [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# ``` This is a non-working config and should be caught by metricbeat test config. Note the **setup.kibana.user:** instead of **setup.kibana.username:** ``` [root@xalnplvapxx metricbeat]# metricbeat version metricbeat version 6.4.1 (amd64), libbeat 6.4.1 [37b5f2d2a20f2734b2373a454b4b4cbb2627e841 built 2018-09-13 21:29:53 +0000 UTC] ``` System is RHEL7.5 and installation method was by RPM from the Elastic Repository. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-4-1-config-test-gives-false-ok/153033/5 "2018-11-19T12:21:52Z")
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