I want to create a new space in kibana and create a new user , attach a role with specific access and only to the space. This is a straight-forward thing with lot of docs provided by elasticsearch itself, but however there is one thing that I cannot find any clear documentation on. Does kibana support RBAC without enabling security features in elasticsearch? Is it possible to create roles in kibana without enabling security features in elasticsearch? I'm almost sure that it is not possible but since there is not direct wordings in the documents stating the above, I'm skeptical about it and hence posting here for expert suggestions.
I'm using kibana version 7.7.1. In my dashboard I'm not able to see the word "security" anywhere as described in the document. Posting a sample screenshot below.
Finally Found an official document that states the same. To answer the question, Yes Kibana doesn't support RBAC in a standalone manner. It depends on elasticsearch.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.x/using-kibana-with-security.html
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Is there anyway to create a user that can only do the CRUD operations on dashboards in kibana?i need this kind of permission but i cant figure out how to create it.
Can someone help?
Ok, in the recent versions it´s pretty easy as you can use kibana to manage the roles and kibana features per space and role.
Have a closer look at kibana role management and kibana privileges - I´ts pretty well documented!
I'm really confused when I'm reading the documentation of security. I would like to protect the kibana with username and password. When I'm reading docs there is no mention that is free or not. Only the things with AD or Ldap that I'm aware are paid. So my question is: is it allowed to use basic security for free? Do I need to install an additional plugin for that if I use ELK 6.4.x?
I can recommend Search Guard (https://search-guard.com/product/) community edition. This is a free and Apache 2 licensed feature rich open source security plugin for Elasticsearch which also comes with a Kibana plugin. Username/Password protection as well as SSL support is also free.
For advanced features like federated authentication, LDAP/AD and Audit logging you need to purchase a license.
Github link: https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard
You need x-pack plugin for user & role based access to secure Kibana. X-pack is not free but I believe they have like a 30-day trial period.
The security feature in the Elastic Stack is not free, you need a license for that, but if your goal is to set a username and password for acessing kibana there are other alternatives.
You can try the Community Edition of Search Guard, a security plugin for the elastic stack, or you can use nginx to secure the acess to kibana and other endpoints of the elastic api, as described on this post on the elastic blog: https://www.elastic.co/blog/playing-http-tricks-nginx
What are the elastic search versions will support security features like role based access control ??
I am using elastic search only as a document store (no kibana or logstash), can we achieve role based access ?
If yes, how to create users and provide read/write role for it ?
I would suggest you read the X-pack docs for the same.
This is not the exact answer but I am new to the elastic as well.
I would recommend using ELK stack for getting the access control.
Heyy, I'm looking for up-to-date kibana plug-in resources to help me learn and understand how to develop one.
All the resources I've found are out-of-date.
Can anyone help, please?
I suggest understanding plugin directory structure for traffic plugin which would be one of simplest plugin to understand and you could directly add it to your installed plugin folder in kibana and see it working.
Other than that I would also suggest you do read Tim Roes blogs for developing kibana plugins.
Last I would also suggest to use elasticsearch discussion forum for kibana related issues as well for quicker responses.
As kibana has different js files which loaded synchrnized way. you can use as it required.
I am upgrading an install of SonarQube from 4.5.1 to 5.2. I wasn't part of the original install and when looking at the sonar.properties file to see what needs to be update in the new one, I see properties for "sonar.search".
What is Sonar Search? Why would I need to uncomment/update these properties?
I haven't been able to find any good documentation on the SonarQube website on what it is and "sonar" and "search" internet searches bring up way too many unrelated results to sift through.
It is an Elasticsearch instance used for indexing some database tables. It allows for example powerful search requests on issues. See the sidebar of page "Issues". It supports multi-criteria searches and displays valuable facets.
Default settings in sonar.properties are good enough for most of environments. JVM settings of this dedicated process could be overridden if dozens of millions of issues are stored in database.