Configure SSL

You can specify SSL options when you configure:

Example output config with SSL enabled:

output.elasticsearch.hosts: ["https://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.

Example Kibana endpoint config with SSL enabled:

setup.kibana.host: "https://192.0.2.255:5601"
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"

Example module with SSL enabled:

- module: http
  namespace: "myservice"
  enabled: true
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["https://localhost"]
  path: "/stats"
  headers:
    Authorization: "Bearer test123"
  ssl.verification_mode: "none"

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

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

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.

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 key option is also required.

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

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

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, TLSv1.2, and TLSv1.3.

The default value is [TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3].

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.

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). Note that TLS 1.3 cipher suites are not individually configurable in Go, so they are not included in this list.

The following cipher suites are available:

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

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

The following elliptic curve types are available:

This configures what types of TLS renegotiation are supported. The valid options are never, once, and freely. The default value is never.

This configures a certificate pin that you can use to ensure that a specific certificate is part of the verified chain.

The pin is a base64 encoded string of the SHA-256 of the certificate.