I've done installed my ElasticSearch (ES) Server on a VPS Centos. I did test the ES inside the Server and it response correctly.
My next step, is to allow my website which is host on a different web host to access and index its data content into my ES server.
My question is, what is the recommended way of exposed the ES to the internet, so my website can access to it to perform index and search? Is there's authentication method that I need to install ?
You need to include network.host:0.0.0.0 in your elasticsearch.yml file so that it listens on the non-loopback address and after that, if your app-server and ES are both in the same VPC, app-server will be able to connect to ES(provided if you exposed 9200 port in security group(in case of AWS).
And hopefully, your app-server port is exposed to the internet which internally connects to ES, you should not expose 9200 port of ES or Elasticsearch to the internet.
If you want an extra layer of security, you can enable x-pack basic which is included in the free tier and can be enabled using xpack.security.enabled: true in elasticsearch.config.
Refer x-pack features and configuration for more info.
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My web app (grimoirelab) contains multiple services spun up using docker-compose which contains elasticsearch and kibana . Port 5601 (kibana) is open and accessible through the web.
I want to enable SSL / TLS in the Kibana container , i.e , change the URL from http to https
Kibana and Elasticsearch are both of Version : 6.8.6
I have very less experience in web security so would really appreciate any guidance on the same...
You can follow this elasticsearch documentation for configuration of SSL and TLS, and it is available as free after 6.8 version.
Please check Configuring SSL, TLS, and HTTPS to secure Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash blog.
Please check this documentation for how to setup SSL and TLS with Elasticsearch Docker Container.
I am using elastic search in my ubuntu16.04 server. When i am trying to access elasticsearch from browser by using url ip:port/_cat/indices?v. I am getting site can't be reached. After that i am change the network.host value to network.host: 0.0.0.0. After change the network.host ip the search engine not started. How can i access the elasticsearch in my browser.I changed the port also.
Thank you..
There can be many reasons for ES not being reachable. I would start with the obvious and make sure that:
ES is listening on the port: on the ES instance when you run 'curl
ip:port' you should get an answer. if not the service didn't start
well.
make sure there are no firewall rules/security groups that prevent
access from remote network.
make sure network.publish_host is configure correctly:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-network.html#advanced-network-settings
more info here: ElasticSearch instance not reachable from outside the server - Azure Windows 2012
I'm using grafana cloud for creating visualization but when i'm trying to load the data source with elasticsearch i'm getting 502 error.
502 usually means bad gateway (there is no connection) and that IP address looks like an internal IP address. GrafanaCloud is a cloud service so it does not have access to internal IP addresses.
Your options are:
Install Grafana locally if you do not want to open up anything over the internet.
Use direct mode instead of proxy mode. This means that requests will go directly from your browser to the elasticsearch server and not go through the Grafana backend server. However, GrafanaCloud is on https so you will get a mixed content warning and you would need to solve that by having a proxy in front of your elasticsearch server (or by setting up https for your server).
Make your server accessible over the internet. Setup a static IP address for your elasticsearch server, setup firewall rules etc. so that GrafanaCloud can query your server.
Add the following configurations in config/elasticsearch.yml:
transport.host: localhost
transport.tcp.port: 9300
http.port: 9200
network.host: 0.0.0.0
I'm trying to track down who is issuing queries to an ElasticSearch Cluster. Elastic doesn't appear to have an access log.
Is there a place where I can find out which IP is hitting the cluster?
Elasticsearch doesn't provide any security out of the box, and that is on purpose and by design.
So you have a couple solutions out there:
Don't let your ES cluster exposed to the open world, but put it behind a firewall (i.e. whitelist the hosts that can access ports 9200/9300 on your nodes)
Look into the Shield plugin for Elasticsearch in order to secure your environment.
Put an nginx server in front of your cluster to act as a reverse proxy.
Add simple basic authentication with either the elasticsearch-jetty plugin or simply the elasticsearch-http-basic plugin, which also allowws you to whitelist the client IPs that are allowed to access your cluster.
If you want to have access logs, you need either 2 or 3, but all solutions above will allow you to secure your ES environment.
I read the docs, but I couldn't make it work.
I have a server that holds elasticsearch and external ones that query it. Until now I can access the elasticsearch from any ip.
Example:
the public ip:port of elasticsearchserver: 123.123.123.123:9200
I have the domains: anothersocialnetwork.com and anothersocialnetwork2.com
and I want only them and localhost to be able to query the elasticsearch server.
Thank you alot
There are multiple way to achieve this. The one i would like to advice is as follows -
Run Elasticsearch in localhost interface by network.host as localhost in elasticsearch.yml file.
Now only applications in localhost can access the application
Place a proxy like nginx or apache and this proxy would be able to access elasticsearch. Now whitelist the IP's you want to access Elasticsearch in the proxy.
Also you can take a look at Elasticsearch jetty plugin. It has some security configurations along with it. But i am not sure if its actively developed.
Also on security Elasticsearch , i would recommend to go through this blog.