I have set up Elastic Search and Kibana and prepared different monitoring dashboard. So how can i lock my dashboard so dashboard is visible to all and even they can apply filters and visualize but it shouldn't change original dashboard so when they open dashboard again it should be same as one which i had prepared. I tried to check elastic search website and they offer subscription for X-pack which provides role based access control. But is there anyway I can lock the dashboard rather than subscription because i used Kibana as it was open source.
Thank You in advance.
- Sam
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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!
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.
I want to secure all the communications in ELK. For that i have installed x-pack plugin. Please let me know if its right plugin to do so. I want to introduce username & password and also SSL enabled communication.
I have installed x-pack plugin in elasticsearch.
elasticsearch-plugin.bat install x-pack
i have also learnt that there are 3 default users in x-pack. elastic, kibana and logstash-system.
Even though i have installed x-pack only on elasticsearch, kibana also asks for credentials.
My Doubts:
I want to know why kibana is asking for credentials.
If i give credentials as kibana/changeme, i dont get any logs in kibana. But if i login as elastic/changeme, i can see logs in kibana.Why it is so? Is it like, the credentials used should be same across elasticsearch and kibana?
How should i manage using elastic, kibana and logstash-system users provided by x-pack?
You can check out the users (assuming you are accessing Kibana on localhost and authenticate with elastic and changeme) at http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/management/security/users?_g=().
In that list you'll also see the user kibana with the role kibana_system. If you check out the details of that role, you'll see that it only has the monitor privilege and can only access the indices .kibana* and .reporting-*. That explains why your kibana user cannot see any data.
If you want to make this production ready:
Only enable the users that you need.
Change passwords.
Maybe disable the default users and just create your own.
PS: I've only checked this on the 6.0.0-alpha2, but I think this should be the same on version 5 as well.
How can I share dashboards and visualizations using a share link and block access to the Kibana (5.1.1) management panel?
When I use X-pack for security then all users have to type login and password to access charts.
I would just share charts with people nothing more.
Before now, when we import all our logs into logstash, we add some extra tags for ease of query. I was able to create a dedicated dashboard as this one
But now I have upgraded Kibana, ES and Logstash to latest version but the kibana dashboard had totally changed.
I was wondering how easy can I replicate the queries as seen in the diagram to display the data needed based on the search criteria in Kibana 4.1.1
Thanks
OK I was able to get a dashboard close to it by copying each queries into the search field and saving it first.
Then in Dashboard screen, click the + sign and click on search and add each saved search queries.