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Specify SSL settings

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Specify SSL settings

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You can specify SSL options for any output that supports SSL. You can also specify SSL options when you set up the Kibana endpoint.

Example output config with SSL enabled:

output.elasticsearch.hosts: ["192.168.1.42:9200"]
output.elasticsearch.ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
output.elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
output.elasticsearch.ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

Also see Secure communication with Logstash by using SSL.

Example Kibana endpoint config with SSL enabled:

setup.kibana.host: "192.0.2.255:5601"
setup.kibana.protocol: "https"
setup.kibana.ssl.enabled: true
setup.kibana.ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
setup.kibana.ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
setup.kibana.ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key

Configuration options

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You can specify the following options in the ssl section of the metricbeat.yml config file:

enabled

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The enabled setting can be used to disable the ssl configuration by setting it to false. The default value is true.

SSL settings are disabled if either enabled is set to false or the ssl section is missing.

certificate_authorities

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The list of root certificates for server verifications. If certificate_authorities is empty or not set, the trusted certificate authorities of the host system are used.

certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"

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The path to the certificate for SSL client authentication. If the certificate is not specified, client authentication is not available. The connection might fail if the server requests client authentication. If the SSL server does not require client authentication, the certificate will be loaded, but not requested or used by the server.

When this option is configured, the certificate_key option is also required.

key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

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The client certificate key used for client authentication. This option is required if certificate is specified.

key_passphrase

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The passphrase used to decrypt an encrypted key stored in the configured key file.

supported_protocols

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List of allowed SSL/TLS versions. If SSL/TLS server decides for protocol versions not configured, the connection will be dropped during or after the handshake. The setting is a list of allowed protocol versions: SSLv3, TLSv1 for TLS version 1.0, TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2.

The default value is [TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2].

verification_mode

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This option controls whether the client verifies server certificates and host names. Valid values are none and full. If verification_mode is set to none, all server host names and certificates are accepted. In this mode, TLS-based connections are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Use this option for testing only.

The default is full.

cipher_suites

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The list of cipher suites to use. The first entry has the highest priority. If this option is omitted, the Go crypto library’s default suites are used (recommended).

The following cipher suites are available:

  • RSA-RC4-128-SHA (disabled by default - RC4 not recommended)
  • RSA-3DES-CBC3-SHA
  • RSA-AES-128-CBC-SHA
  • RSA-AES-256-CBC-SHA
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-128-SHA (disabled by default - RC4 not recommended)
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES-128-CBC-SHA
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES-256-CBC-SHA
  • ECDHE-RSA-RC4-128-SHA (disabled by default- RC4 not recommended)
  • ECDHE-RSA-3DES-CBC3-SHA
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES-128-CBC-SHA
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES-256-CBC-SHA
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES-128-GCM-SHA256 (TLS 1.2 only)
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES-128-GCM-SHA256 (TLS 1.2 only)
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES-256-GCM-SHA384 (TLS 1.2 only)
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES-256-GCM-SHA384 (TLS 1.2 only)

Here is a list of acronyms used in defining the cipher suites:

  • 3DES: Cipher suites using triple DES
  • AES-128/256: Cipher suites using AES with 128/256-bit keys.
  • CBC: Cipher using Cipher Block Chaining as block cipher mode.
  • ECDHE: Cipher suites using Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (DH) ephemeral key exchange.
  • ECDSA: Cipher suites using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm for authentication.
  • GCM: Galois/Counter mode is used for symmetric key cryptography.
  • RC4: Cipher suites using RC4.
  • RSA: Cipher suites using RSA.
  • SHA, SHA256, SHA384: Cipher suites using SHA-1, SHA-256 or SHA-384.

curve_types

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The list of curve types for ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman ephemeral key exchange).

The following elliptic curve types are available:

  • P-256
  • P-384
  • P-521
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