# Metricbeat can't connect to opendistro elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/metricbeat-cant-connect-to-opendistro-elasticsearch/4474>\
**Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana\
**Created:** [December 24, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/metricbeat-cant-connect-to-opendistro-elasticsearch/4474 "2020-12-24T17:55:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![akbaribnu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@akbaribnu](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/akbaribnu)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/metricbeat-cant-connect-to-opendistro-elasticsearch/4474/1 "2020-12-24T17:55:27Z")

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Hi, i have issue on metricbeat  
i use metricbeat 7.10.0 and opendistro 1.12.0, after install metricbeat service can’t connect to opendistro elastic

i try downgrade metricbeat but issue still exist

> 2020-12-24T17:41:33.268Z INFO elasticsearch/client.go:743 Attempting to connect to Elasticsearch version 7.10.0  
> 2020-12-24T17:42:25.177Z ERROR pipeline/output.go:100 Failed to connect to backoff(elasticsearch([https://production-opendistro-opendistro-es-client-service:9200](https://production-opendistro-opendistro-es-client-service:9200))): Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: This Beat requires the default distribution of Elasticsearch. Please install the default distribution of Elasticsearch from elastic\_co, or install the oss-only distribution of beats  
> 2020-12-24T17:42:25.177Z INFO pipeline/output.go:93 Attempting to reconnect to backoff(elasticsearch([https://production-opendistro-opendistro-es-client-service:9200](https://production-opendistro-opendistro-es-client-service:9200))) with 30 reconnect attempt(s)

please can you help me for solve this issue

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**Author:** ![akbaribnu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@akbaribnu](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/akbaribnu)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/metricbeat-cant-connect-to-opendistro-elasticsearch/4474/2 "2020-12-26T13:31:00Z")

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**problem solve** after i change standard metricbeat docker image to metricbeat oss docker image  
you can check this link bellow for change metricbeat oss docker image

- [metricbeat-oss docker-image](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/metricbeat#how-to-install-oss-version-of-metricbeat)