# Received plaintext http traffic on an https channel

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/received-plaintext-http-traffic-on-an-https-channel/324074>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/received-plaintext-http-traffic-on-an-https-channel/324074 "2023-01-26T22:08:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ayush\_Mathur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayush_mathur/32/77134_2.png) [@Ayush\_Mathur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ayush_Mathur)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/received-plaintext-http-traffic-on-an-https-channel/324074/4 "2023-01-27T10:01:14Z")

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Hello @Cruz , it seems you have a single node cluster and you are trying to use your own certificates for SSL.  
I've encountered the logs you mentioned at the beginning and turned out it as due to system watchers trying to hit ES over HTTP: [Secure connection on HTTP layer](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secure-connection-on-http-layer/193805)

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