Using SSL to ship from NXlog to Logstash

Question

I have NXLog shipping my Windows Events to another Logstash machine working fine in just TCP. But I want to encrypt the traffic using a self signed certificate. I think I have

Answer 1

CertFile and CertKeyFile can be used for client side cert based authentication, i.e. if you want trusted ssl connections. These are optional, if you want only encrypted traffic then leave these out.

CAFile is the certificate used to verify the remote end (server).