From 6512b7b7fb6c83b33183b83b2c064025389a821a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Th=C3=A9o?= <33425208+Theoooooo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 02:18:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document service account setup for the elasticsearch output
 (#6224)

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 plugins/outputs/elasticsearch/README.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/outputs/elasticsearch/README.md b/plugins/outputs/elasticsearch/README.md
index 2ba46c87e..388183637 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/elasticsearch/README.md
+++ b/plugins/outputs/elasticsearch/README.md
@@ -161,7 +161,11 @@ This plugin will format the events in the following way:
   ## Set the interval to check if the Elasticsearch nodes are available
   ## Setting to "0s" will disable the health check (not recommended in production)
   health_check_interval = "10s"
-  ## HTTP basic authentication details
+  ## HTTP basic authentication details.
+  ## If you are using authentication within your Elasticsearch cluster, 
+  ## you need to create a account and create a role with at least the manage role in the Cluster Privileges category.
+  ## Overwise, your account will not be able to connect to your Elasticsearch cluster and send logs to your cluster.
+  ## After that, you need to add "create_indice" and "write" permission to your specific index pattern. 
   # username = "telegraf"
   # password = "mypassword"