SSL and Authenticationedit

Basic authentication credentials can be configured on a per-host basis using URL notation, or at the auth: property of a host config object.

Credentials directly in the host url: 

var client = new elasticsearch.Client({
  host: 'https://user:password@my-site.com:9200'
})

Credentials as a property of the host config: 

var client = new elasticsearch.Client({
  host: [
    {
      host: 'es1.internal.org',
      auth: 'user:password',
      protocol: 'https',
      port: 9200
    }
  ]
});

Without any additional configuration you can specify https:// host urls, but the certificates used to sign these requests will not verified (rejectUnauthorized: false). To turn on certificate verification you must specify an ssl: object either in the top level config or in each host config object and set rejectUnauthorized: true. The ssl config object can contain many of the same configuration options that tls.connect() accepts. For convenience these options are also listed in the configuration reference.

Specify a certificate authority that should be used to verify server certifcates on all nodes: 

var client = new elasticsearch.Client({
  hosts: [
    'https://box1.internal.org:9200',
    'https://box2.internal.org:9200',
    'https://box3.internal.org:9200'
  ],
  ssl: {
    ca: fs.readFileSync('./cacert.pem'),
    rejectUnauthorized: true
  }
});