- 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.
Configuring SAML Single-Sign-On on the Elastic Stack
editConfiguring SAML Single-Sign-On on the Elastic Stack
editThe Elastic Stack supports SAML single-sign-on (SSO) into Kibana, using Elasticsearch as a backend service. In SAML terminology, the Elastic Stack is operating as a Service Provider.
The other component that is needed to enable SAML single-sign-on is the Identity Provider, which is a service that handles your credentials and performs that actual authentication of users.
If you are interested in configuring SSO into Kibana, then you will need to provide Elasticsearch with information about your Identity Provider, and you will need to register the Elastic Stack as a known Service Provider within that Identity Provider. There are also a few configuration changes that are required in Kibana to activate the SAML authentication provider.
The SAML support in Kibana is designed on the expectation that it will be the primary (or sole) authentication method for users of that Kibana instance. Once you enable SAML authentication in Kibana it will affect all users who try to login. The Configuring Kibana section provides more detail about how this works.
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