6.4.6.3 X-Pack on Kibana

Run bin/kibana-plugin in your Kibana installation directory.

bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack

The plugin install scripts require direct internet access to download and install X-Pack. If your server doesn’t have internet access, specify the location of the X-Pack zip file that you downloaded to a temporary directory.

bin/kibana-plugin install file:///path/to/file/x-pack-6.2.4.zip

Configuring Security in Kibana

• xpack.security.enabled

  Set to true (default) to enable X-Pack security.

  If set to false in kibana.yml, the user and role management options are hidden in this Kibana instance. If xpack.security.enabled is set to true in elasticsearch.yml, however, you can still use the X-Pack security APIs. To disable X-Pack security entirely, see the Elasticsearch Security Settings.

• elasticsearch.username: and elasticsearch.password:

  If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which is proxied through the Kibana server.

xpack.security.enabled: true
elasticsearch.username: "kibana"
elasticsearch.password: "S2Q0eACh2IvMLLqrutzK"