- X-Pack Reference for 6.0-6.2 and 5.x:
- Introduction
- Setting Up X-Pack
- Breaking Changes
- X-Pack APIs
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Reporting from Kibana
- Securing the Elastic Stack
- Getting Started with Security
- How Security Works
- Setting Up User Authentication
- Configuring SAML Single-Sign-On on the Elastic Stack
- Configuring Role-based Access Control
- Auditing Security Events
- Encrypting Communications
- Restricting Connections with IP Filtering
- Cross Cluster Search, Tribe, Clients and Integrations
- Reference
- Monitoring the Elastic Stack
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Machine Learning in the Elastic Stack
- Troubleshooting
- Getting Help
- X-Pack security
- Can’t log in after upgrading to 6.2.4
- Some settings are not returned via the nodes settings API
- Authorization exceptions
- Users command fails due to extra arguments
- Users are frequently locked out of Active Directory
- Certificate verification fails for curl on Mac
- SSLHandshakeException causes connections to fail
- Common SSL/TLS exceptions
- Internal Server Error in Kibana
- Setup-passwords command fails due to connection failure
- X-Pack Watcher
- X-Pack monitoring
- X-Pack machine learning
- Limitations
- License Management
- Release Notes
WARNING: Version 6.2 of the Elastic Stack has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
HTTP/REST Clients and Security
editHTTP/REST Clients and Security
editX-Pack security works with standard HTTP basic authentication headers to authenticate users. Since Elasticsearch is stateless, this header must be sent with every request:
Client examples
editThis example uses curl
without basic auth to create an index:
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/idx'
{ "error": "AuthenticationException[Missing authentication token]", "status": 401 }
Since no user is associated with the request above, an authentication error is
returned. Now we’ll use curl
with basic auth to create an index as the
rdeniro
user:
curl --user rdeniro:taxidriver -XPUT 'localhost:9200/idx'
{ "acknowledged": true }
Client Libraries over HTTP
editFor more information about how to use X-Pack security with the language specific clients please refer to Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, .NET, Javascript
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