[syslog-ng] Elastic Search destination with x-pack

[Fabien Wernli]

Hi Scot,

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 02:40:44AM -0400, Scot Needy wrote:
>  Installed the x-pack to secure my ES instance and Kibana but noticed there does not seem to be any docs on how to handle ES authentication in from syslog-ng.conf. 

I think you're looking for `client-mode(shield)` as stated later in the
documentation [1].

FWIW I successfully tested it some time ago.

Cheers

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[1]
https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/destination-elasticsearch2-client-modes.html