- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- Introduction
- Set Up Kibana
- Breaking Changes
- Getting Started
- Discover
- Visualize
- Dashboard
- Timelion
- Machine Learning
- APM
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Dev Tools
- Monitoring
- Management
- Reporting from Kibana
- REST API
- Kibana Plugins
- Contributing to Kibana
- Limitations
- Release Highlights
- Release Notes
- Kibana 6.4.3
- Kibana 6.4.2
- Kibana 6.4.1
- Kibana 6.4.0
- Kibana 6.3.2
- Kibana 6.3.1
- Kibana 6.3.0
- Kibana 6.2.4
- Kibana 6.2.3
- Kibana 6.2.2
- Kibana 6.2.1
- Kibana 6.2.0
- Kibana 6.1.4
- Kibana 6.1.3
- Kibana 6.1.2
- Kibana 6.1.1
- Kibana 6.1.0
- Kibana 6.0.1
- Kibana 6.0.0
- Kibana 6.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 6.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 6.0.0-beta2
- Kibana 6.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 6.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 6.0.0-alpha1
Security
editSecurity
editThe Elastic Stack security features enable you to easily secure a cluster. With security, you can password-protect your data as well as implement more advanced security measures such as encrypting communications, role-based access control, IP filtering, and auditing. For more information, see Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana and Configuring Security in Kibana.
Users
editYou can create and manage users on the Management / Security / Users page. You can also change their passwords and roles. For more information about authentication and built-in users, see Setting up user authentication.
Roles
editYou can manage roles on the Management / Security / Roles page, or use Kibana’s Kibana Role Management API. For more information on configuring roles for Kibana see Kibana Authorization.
For a more holistic overview of configuring roles for the entire stack, see Configuring role-based access control.
Managing roles that grant Kibana privileges using the Elasticsearch role management APIs is not supported. Doing so will likely cause Kibana’s authorization to behave unexpectedly.