# Trying to get Logstash to connect to a secured cluster. Where is the easiest connection to make?

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**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-get-logstash-to-connect-to-a-secured-cluster-where-is-the-easiest-connection-to-make/164175 "2019-01-14T16:30:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigdamhero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigdamhero/32/34478_2.png) [@bigdamhero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bigdamhero)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-get-logstash-to-connect-to-a-secured-cluster-where-is-the-easiest-connection-to-make/164175/1 "2019-01-14T16:30:07Z")

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I was thinking that it might be easier to connect the monitoring to my secure cluster. I have not had any success, I am wondering if there needs to be an active pipline which is shipping logs to the same cluster or can the monitoring work independently?  
Thanks again to anyone for some help.

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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:** [February 11, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-get-logstash-to-connect-to-a-secured-cluster-where-is-the-easiest-connection-to-make/164175/2 "2019-02-11T16:41:45Z")

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