# Not able to start kibana after enabling ssl encryption in elk stack

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-kibana-after-enabling-ssl-encryption-in-elk-stack/242396
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-kibana-after-enabling-ssl-encryption-in-elk-stack/242396 "2020-07-23T19:56:33Z")
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### Author: ![Matish\_Bhuyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matish_bhuyan/32/68043_2.png) [@Matish\_Bhuyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matish_Bhuyan)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-kibana-after-enabling-ssl-encryption-in-elk-stack/242396/1 "2020-07-23T19:56:33Z")

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Hi All,

After installing the plugin and enabling the ssl b/w elasticsearch ,kibana and logstash

when i restarted my kibana service getting this below error and not able to view the kibana screen

```
{"type":"error","@timestamp":"2020-07-23T19:49:16Z","tags":["connection","client","error"],"pid":11228,"level":"error","error":{"message":"139953914136384:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 46\n","name":"Error","stack":"Error: 139953914136384:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 46\n"},"message":"139953914136384:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 46\n"}
{"type":"error","@timestamp":"2020-07-23T19:49:17Z","tags":["connection","client","error"],"pid":11228,"level":"error","error":{"message":"139953914136384:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 46\n","name":"Error","stack":"Error: 139953914136384:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 46\n"},"message":"139953914136384:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 46\n"}
```

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### Author: ![Dzmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dzmitry/32/65026_2.png) [@Dzmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dzmitry)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-kibana-after-enabling-ssl-encryption-in-elk-stack/242396/2 "2020-07-27T08:38:38Z")

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Hi @Matish_Bhuyan

Can you provide the steps how you generated the certificate on your machine?

Also, this blog [post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/configuring-ssl-tls-and-https-to-secure-elasticsearch-kibana-beats-and-logstash) provides steps how to configure SSL, TLS, and HTTPS in a right way. It might be helpful to read.

Regards, Dzmitry

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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: [August 24, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-kibana-after-enabling-ssl-encryption-in-elk-stack/242396/3 "2020-08-24T08:38:41Z")

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