Metricbeat not able to connect with x-pack enabled elastic

Elastic Stack Beats
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Hi

While connecting metricbeat with x-pack enabled elastic cluster , i am getting below error.

2019-07-23T12:45:21.103+0530	INFO	instance/beat.go:292	Setup Beat: metricbeat; Version: 7.2.0
2019-07-23T12:45:21.103+0530	INFO	[index-management]	idxmgmt/std.go:178	Set output.elasticsearch.index to 'metricbeat-7.2.0' as ILM is enabled.
2019-07-23T12:45:21.104+0530	ERROR	tlscommon/tls.go:151	Failed reading CA certificate: <nil>
2019-07-23T12:45:21.105+0530	INFO	instance/beat.go:385	metricbeat stopped.
2019-07-23T12:45:21.105+0530	ERROR	instance/beat.go:877	Exiting: error initializing publisher: 1 error: file is not a certificate adding /etc/metricbeat/ca.crt
Exiting: error initializing publisher: 1 error: file is not a certificate adding /etc/metricbeat/ca.crt

OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  hosts: ["10.0.0.1:9200"]

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  protocol: "https"
  ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/metricbeat/ca.crt"]
  ssl.certificate: "/etc/metricbeat/my.cer"
  ssl.key: "/etc/metricbeat/my.key"
  username: "username"
  password: "password"
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Got it.Actually i had enabled tls encryption on elasticsearch ,so after disabling the protocol and converting the ca file in pem format same worked fine.

Update Config

output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  hosts: ["10.0.0.1:9200"]

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/metricbeat/ca.crt"]
  ssl.certificate: "/etc/metricbeat/my.cer"
  ssl.key: "/etc/metricbeat/my.key"
  username: "username"
  password: "password"

You could try your certificate here. Just replace the cert text and click Run. [https://play.golang.org/p/4UvK6TBeud ](https://play.golang.org/p/4UvK6TBeud)

Command for conversion

openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -in certificate.p7b -out certificate.pem

can anyone please let me know how to enable https on elasticsearch if it's free

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can anyone please let me know how to enable https on elasticsearch if it's free.

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Hi @abhishek13 :slight_smile:

I guess that you have already checked the docs but maybe this blog post can also help you:

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