- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
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- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
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- Enterprise Search settings
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- Securing access to Kibana
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- Upgrade Kibana
- Configure security
- Configure reporting
- Configure logging
- Configure monitoring
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- Production considerations
- Discover
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- Build a map to compare metrics by country or region
- Track, visualize, and alert on assets in real time
- Map custom regions with reverse geocoding
- Heat map layer
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- Plot big data
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- Configure map settings
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- Slack
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- Tines
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- Webhook
- Webhook - Case Management
- xMatters
- Preconfigured connectors
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- Security
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- Tags
- Upgrade Assistant
- Watcher
- REST API
- Get features API
- Kibana spaces APIs
- Kibana role management APIs
- User session management APIs
- Saved objects APIs
- Data views API
- Index patterns APIs
- Alerting APIs
- Action and connector APIs
- Cases APIs
- Import and export dashboard APIs
- Logstash configuration management APIs
- Machine learning APIs
- Osquery manager API
- Short URLs APIs
- Get Task Manager health
- Upgrade assistant APIs
- Synthetics APIs
- Uptime APIs
- Kibana plugins
- Troubleshooting
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Upgrade notes
- Kibana 8.17.1
- Kibana 8.17.0
- Kibana 8.16.3
- Kibana 8.16.2
- Kibana 8.16.1
- Kibana 8.16.0
- Kibana 8.15.5
- Kibana 8.15.4
- Kibana 8.15.3
- Kibana 8.15.2
- Kibana 8.15.1
- Kibana 8.15.0
- Kibana 8.14.3
- Kibana 8.14.2
- Kibana 8.14.1
- Kibana 8.14.0
- Kibana 8.13.4
- Kibana 8.13.3
- Kibana 8.13.2
- Kibana 8.13.1
- Kibana 8.13.0
- Kibana 8.12.2
- Kibana 8.12.1
- Kibana 8.12.0
- Kibana 8.11.4
- Kibana 8.11.3
- Kibana 8.11.2
- Kibana 8.11.1
- Kibana 8.11.0
- Kibana 8.10.4
- Kibana 8.10.3
- Kibana 8.10.2
- Kibana 8.10.1
- Kibana 8.10.0
- Kibana 8.9.2
- Kibana 8.9.1
- Kibana 8.9.0
- Kibana 8.8.2
- Kibana 8.8.1
- Kibana 8.8.0
- Kibana 8.7.1
- Kibana 8.7.0
- Kibana 8.6.1
- Kibana 8.6.0
- Kibana 8.5.2
- Kibana 8.5.1
- Kibana 8.5.0
- Kibana 8.4.3
- Kibana 8.4.2
- Kibana 8.4.1
- Kibana 8.4.0
- Kibana 8.3.3
- Kibana 8.3.2
- Kibana 8.3.1
- Kibana 8.3.0
- Kibana 8.2.3
- Kibana 8.2.2
- Kibana 8.2.1
- Kibana 8.2.0
- Kibana 8.1.3
- Kibana 8.1.2
- Kibana 8.1.1
- Kibana 8.1.0
- Kibana 8.0.0
- Kibana 8.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 8.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 8.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 8.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 8.0.0-alpha1
- Developer guide
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 Secure a cluster and Configuring Security in Kibana.
There are security limitations that affect Kibana. For more information, refer to Security.
Required permissions
editThe manage_security
cluster privilege is required to access all Security features.
Users
editTo create and manage users, go to the Users management page using the navigation menu or the global search field. You can also change their passwords and roles. For more information about authentication and built-in users, see Setting up user authentication.
Roles
editTo manage roles, go to the Roles management page using the navigation menu or the global search field, or use the role APIs. For more information on configuring roles for Kibana, see Granting access to Kibana.
For a more holistic overview of configuring roles for the entire stack, see User authorization.
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.
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