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The Elasticsearch security features enable you to easily secure a cluster. You canpassword-protect your data as well as implement more advanced security measuressuch as encrypting communications, role-based access control, IP filtering, andauditing.
To use Elasticsearch security features:
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Verify that you are using a license that includes the security features.
If you want to try all of the platinum features, you can start a 30-day trial.At the end of the trial period, you can purchase a subscription to keep usingthe full functionality. For more information, seehttps://www.elastic.co/subscriptions andLicense Management.
- Verify that the
xpack.security.enabled
setting istrue
on each node inyour cluster. If you are using a trial license, the default value isfalse
.For more information, see Security settings. - If you plan to run Elasticsearch in a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)140-2 enabled JVM, see FIPS 140-2.
Configure Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) for internode-communication.
This requirement applies to clusters with more than one node and toclusters with a single node that listens on an external interface. Single-nodeclusters that use a loopback interface do not have this requirement. For moreinformation, seeEncrypting communications.
- Generate node certificates for each of your Elasticsearch nodes.
- Enable TLS on each Elasticsearch node.
- If it is not already running, start Elasticsearch.
Set the passwords for all built-in users.
Primo photo 1 5 12. The Elasticsearch security features providebuilt-in users tohelp you get up and running. The
elasticsearch-setup-passwords
command is thesimplest method to set the built-in users' passwords for the first time.For example, you can run the command in an 'interactive' mode, which prompts youto enter new passwords for the built-in users:
For more information about the command options, see elasticsearch-setup-passwords.
The
elasticsearch-setup-passwords
command uses a transient bootstrappassword that is no longer valid after the command runs successfully. You cannotrun theelasticsearch-setup-passwords
command a second time. Instead, you canupdate passwords from the Management > Users UI in Kibana or use the securityuser API.Choose which types of realms you want to use to authenticate users.
- Configure an Active Directory realm.
- Configure a file realm.
- Configure an LDAP realm.
- Configure a native realm.
- Configure a PKI realm.
- Configure a SAML realm.
- Configure a Kerberos realm.
Set up roles and users to control access to Elasticsearch.
For example, to grant John Doe full access to all indices that matchthe pattern
events*
and enable him to create visualizations and dashboardsfor those indices in Kibana, you could create anevents_admin
roleand assign the role to a newjohndoe
user.Enable auditing to keep track of attempted and successful interactions withyour Elasticsearch cluster:
Add the following setting to
elasticsearch.yml
on all nodes in your cluster:For more information, see Auditing security eventsand Auditing Settings.
- Restart Elasticsearch.
By default, events are logged to a dedicated
elasticsearch-access.log
file inES_HOME/logs
. You can also store the events in an Elasticsearch index foreasier analysis and control what events are logged. [6.7.0]Deprecated in 6.7.0.
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