# Metricbeat-7.16.2 HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-16-2-http-error-401-in-401-unauthorized/294816>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 19, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-16-2-http-error-401-in-401-unauthorized/294816 "2022-01-19T13:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![mwoods269](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mwoods269](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mwoods269)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-16-2-http-error-401-in-401-unauthorized/294816/1 "2022-01-19T13:26:42Z")

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Hello,

Environment:

- singlenode sandbox running 7.16.2

- Security enabled (TLS inter node comms) No Https

Issue:

- Installed metricbeat and enabled Elasticsearch however node still reporting as self monitored
- Getting status of metricbeat service is throwing the following errors

```auto
Jan 19 13:13:43 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:43.610Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.ccr: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.647Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.ml_job: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.647Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.node_stats: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.648Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.shard: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.648Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.enrich: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.648Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.index_recovery: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.649Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.ccr: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.649Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.cluster_stats: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.649Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.index_summary: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized
Jan 19 13:13:53 ip-172-31-70-54 metricbeat[27603]: 2022-01-19T13:13:53.650Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset elasticsearch.index: error determining if connected Elasticsearch node is master: HTTP error 401 in : 401 Unauthorized

```

Credentials have been configured in each service as well as the metricbeat Elasticsearch module.

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**Author:** ![mwoods269](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mwoods269](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mwoods269)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-16-2-http-error-401-in-401-unauthorized/294816/3 "2022-01-19T17:07:43Z")

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Resolved....just needed to add credentials to all modules.

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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:** [February 16, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-16-2-http-error-401-in-401-unauthorized/294816/4 "2022-02-16T19:08:00Z")

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