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Create users
editCreate users
editLet’s create two users in the native realm.
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Log in to Kibana with the
elastic
built-in user. -
Go to the Management / Security / Users page:
In this example, you can see a list of built-in users.
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Click Create new user. For example, create a user for yourself:
You’ll notice that when you create a user, you can assign it a role. Don’t choose a role yet—we’ll come back to that in subsequent steps.
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Click Create new user and create a
logstash_internal
user.In Getting started with the Elastic Stack, you configured Logstash to listen for Metricbeat input and to send the events to Elasticsearch. You therefore need to create a user that Logstash can use to communicate with Elasticsearch. For example: