# How to configure proxy for alert destinations **URL:** \ **Category:** Alerting\ **Created:** [June 4, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836 "2019-06-04T17:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thanurak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@thanurak](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/thanurak)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/1 "2019-06-04T17:22:48Z")
I’m running OpenDistro for elasticsearch and Kibana on CentOS7 virtual machine. I ran into an issue that my slack webhook is not reachable from ODfES [Previous topic](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/exception-publishing-message-destinationtype-slack/772/2) I think the issue I have is, I’m behind a proxy. I found that http proxy support was added with this [PR](https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/alerting/pull/23/files) But I couldn’t find proper details/document on how to configure this. Installed Packages opendistroforelasticsearch.noarch: 0.9.0-1 opendistroforelasticsearch-kibana.x86\_64: 0.9.0-1 On the host, i have already added the proxy as environment variable Note: yum etc works fine with the proxy ``` [root@t]# cat /etc/environment http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80 https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80 ``` furthermore as I mentioned in my previous topic slack endpoint works/reachable via curl ``` [root@SourceHost ~]# curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"text":"Failed Login Attempt on \n\n Monitor Windows authentication failures just entered alert status. Please investigate the issue.\n- Trigger: Windows authentication failures - Trigger\n- Severity: 1\n- Period start: 2019-05-28T00:18:12.394Z\n- Period end: 2019-05-28T00:19:12.394Z"}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/blah/blah/blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ok [root@SourceHost ~]# ``` Can someone help me on this. ---
**Author:** ![thanurak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@thanurak](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/thanurak)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/2 "2019-06-05T17:12:37Z")
Damn… Finally got it working after few days If you are behind a proxy you need to add below configs to your “/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options” file ``` -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.example.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -Dhttps.proxyHost=proxy.example.com -Dhttps.proxyPort=80 ``` With this changes, you need to restart elasticsearch and you are good to go. ---
**Author:** ![HeiDri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HeiDri](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/HeiDri)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/3 "2020-05-05T12:02:39Z")
> [@thanurak](#): > > [root@SourceHost ~]# curl -X POST -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d ‘{“text”:“Failed Login Attempt on \n\n Monitor Windows authentication failures just entered alert status. Please investigate the issue.\n- Trigger: Windows authentication failures - Trigger\n- Severity: 1\n- Period start: 2019-05-28T00:18:12.394Z\n- Period end: 2019-05-28T00:19:12.394Z”}’ [https://hooks.slack.com/services/blah/blah/blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah](https://hooks.slack.com/services/blah/blah/blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) ok [root@SourceHost ~]# Hi thanurak , i’ve added configs to jvm.options but it’s not working !! any idea ? Thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![lowgitek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@lowgitek](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/lowgitek)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/4 "2020-08-27T17:12:59Z")
I have the exactly same problem it just ignores the username and password In my case my proxy needs a username and password we tried with -Dhttp.proxyUser=user -Dhttp.proxyPassword=pass java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (“java.net.NetPermission” “requestPasswordAuthentication”) Cheers, Elton ---
**Author:** ![jlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jlm](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/jlm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/5 "2025-02-18T14:58:23Z")
Hi @lowgitek , I actually have the same issue, i didn’t manage to fix with http.proxyUser parameter (like you). Did you fix your problem ? ---
**Author:** ![pablo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/pablo/32/10363_2.png) [@pablo](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/pablo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/6 "2025-03-10T18:59:34Z")
@jlm This issue regards ODFE which was based on Elasticsearch and Kibana. Is your issue related to ODFE or OpenSearch? Please open a new thread in the forum and share your software information and detailed issue description. ---
**Author:** ![jlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jlm](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/jlm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-alert-destinations/836/7 "2025-03-31T09:11:27Z")
@pablo, my use case is on Opensearch. I always have the issue.