# Monitoring Logstash with metricbeat: Error connection refused

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-logstash-with-metricbeat-error-connection-refused/256760>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-logstash-with-metricbeat-error-connection-refused/256760 "2020-11-26T11:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheHunter1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thehunter1/32/80190_2.png) [@TheHunter1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheHunter1)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-logstash-with-metricbeat-error-connection-refused/256760/1 "2020-11-26T11:01:31Z")

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Hello, I am trying to monitor my Logstash node using metricbeat, but I am getting these errors:

```auto
Error fetching data for metricset logstash.node: error making http request: Get "https://X.X.X.X:9600/_node": dial tcp X.X.X.X:9600: connect: connection refused
Error fetching data for metricset logstash.node_stats: error making http request: Get "https://X.X.X.X:9600/_node/stats": dial tcp X.X.X.X:9600: connect: connection refused

```

My configuration in the logstash-xpack.yml is:

```auto
- module: logstash
  metricsets:
    - node
    - node_stats
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["https://X.X.X.X:9600"]
  username: "remote_monitoring_user"
  password: "password"
  ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/metricbeat/certs/ca.crt"]
  ssl.certificate: "/etc/logstash/certs/LOGSTASH.crt"
  ssl.key: "/etc/logstash/certs/LOGSTASH.key"
  ssl.verification_mode: "full"

```

Can you tell me please what's wrong with my configuration !

Thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-logstash-with-metricbeat-error-connection-refused/256760/2 "2020-11-30T03:12:36Z")

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Can you `curl https://X.X.X.X:9600` successfully from the same machine that's running Metricbeat?

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**Author:** ![TheHunter1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thehunter1/32/80190_2.png) [@TheHunter1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheHunter1)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-logstash-with-metricbeat-error-connection-refused/256760/3 "2020-11-30T08:28:28Z")

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Thanks for your reply @shaunak,  
I am running Metricbeat in the same machine where Logstash is installed

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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:** [December 28, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-logstash-with-metricbeat-error-connection-refused/256760/4 "2020-12-28T10:28:29Z")

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