I am using Elasticsearch with Shield. When I am trying to execute Watcher I am getting the below error. ElasticsearchSecurityException[missing authentication token for REST request [/_cluster/health]] at org.elasticsearch.shield.support.Exceptions.authenticationError(Exceptions.java:39) at org.e…

Shield blocking Watcher to query in Elasticsearch

spinscale (Alexander Reelsen) January 25, 2016, 2:50pm 2

Hey,

you need to supply authentication information, when executing the http request pointing to /_cluster/health.

See the auth setting for the HTTP input. See the http input documentation

--Alex

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Missing authentication token for REST error

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