# SSL Alert Number 46 in Kibana.log

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ssl-alert-number-46-in-kibana-log/186405
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ssl-alert-number-46-in-kibana-log/186405 "2019-06-19T08:00:58Z")
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### Author: ![anapsix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anapsix/32/51440_2.png) [@anapsix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anapsix)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ssl-alert-number-46-in-kibana-log/186405/5 "2019-08-01T13:58:02Z")

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check out this thread: [Encrypting communications in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encrypting-communications-in-kibana/186369/3)

in short: **Due to clients(Web Browsers) not trusting self-signed Kibana certificates, you will see a message similar to the following in your Kibana logs, until proper trust is established by using certificates generated by an enterprise or public CA** (here's the [link to the issue in the Kibana repo](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/35004)). This issue does not affect your ability to work in Kibana:

```auto
[18:22:31.675] [error][client][connection] Error: 4443837888:error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/s3_pkt.c:1498:SSL alert number 46

```

As a result, Kibana's error logs is normal.

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