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Configuring Filebeat to use Encrypted Connections
editConfiguring Filebeat to use Encrypted Connections
editIf encryption is enabled on the Elasticsearch cluster, you need to connect to Elasticsearch via
HTTPS. If the certificate authority (CA) that signed your node certificates
is not in the host system’s trusted certificate authorities list, you also need
to add the path to the .pem
file that contains your CA’s certificate to the
Filebeat configuration.
To configure a Filebeat to connect to Elasticsearch via HTTPS, add the https
protocol to all host URLs: