X-Pack is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities into one easy-to-install package. While the X-Pack components are designed to work together seamlessly, you can easily enable or disable the features you want to use.
Questions tagged [elasticsearch-x-pack]
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ILM using Logstash Elasticsearch output plugin doesn't work
I'm trying to implement ILM for an index to properly use hardware, using the Elasticsearch output plugin. Looks like I misunderstand how Logstash manages ILM.
I have ELK stack version 7.1.0 in docker. X-Pack is activated by trial license.
The index…

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Is ES native SQL parsed as ES DSL (json query)? How to get the parsing time?
I want to know whether Elasticsearch native SQL will be parsed as Elasticsearch DSL (json query)? And how to get the parsing time??
I found a link about that.
An Introduction to Elasticsearch SQL with Practical Examples - Part 1
You can find a…

Lin Liu
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Can an Elasticsearch rollup job dynamically create indexes like Logstash does?
I am currently testing out the new rollup APIs in Elasticsearch 6.3 and am wondering if there is any way to configure the rollup job to dynamically create an index based on timestamp like Logstash does when ingesting data? The use case is to try and…

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Kibana issue connecting to ElasticSearch
Good day:
I've installed ElasticSearch (on Azure) and I"m trying to get my Kibana (local instance) connecting to my remote elastic instance however, I"m getting the following issue:
[06:26:19.214] [warning][license][xpack] License information from…

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Role based access control for Kibana and Elastic Search
I am new to Elastic and Kibana. Using Version 6.2.4.
I have installed the ELK stack with the X-pack enabled on it.
Now I have Kibana working on port 5601 with authentication and elastic working on 9200 with authentication.
Here is what I want to…

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Kibana is not coming up when i have AWS Elasticsearch service with 5.1 version with separate installation of kibana 5.1.1 with x-pack
I am using AWS Elasticsearch service with 5.1 version.
I have separate installation of kibana 5.1.1 with x-pack.
My Kibana is not coming up, giving Authorization Exception
As per forum https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=248200,…

Aman Sehgal
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Authentication of [elastic] was terminated by realm [reserved] while xpack secrutiy passwords are set
I am setting up a ELK stack on Kubernetes.
Already did it one for pre-prod environment and it is working well. Unfortunately, when trying to duplicate the setup for a prod environment I came across this error :
Authentication of [elastic] was…

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Pre-baking machine image of Elasticsearch 8 with xpack auto security configure shutting me out with TLS errors
I installed Elasticsearch via Packer and Ansible onto a machine image on GCP. I tried running elasticsearch-reset-password -u elastic to change the password. I think I'm getting the following error because the installation was done on a different IP…

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failed to authenticate user [elastic] after enabling xpack.security in elasticsearch
I Use Kibana 7.11.1 stack. this problem is related to elasticsearch alone.
I added xpack.security.enabled: true to elasticsearch.yml and ran elasticsearch-setup-passwords auto
to set the default users password. but now when I start elasticsearch I…

ufk
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failed to authenticate user [elastic]
I had ELK stack wroking perfectly before adding the two lignes to elacticsearch.yml:
http.cors.allow-methods: OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
http.cors.allow-headers: kbn-version, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept,…

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How to add basic user/pass authentication to elastic.yaml
I am using the yaml file below to deploy ElasticSearch to Azure Kubernetes.
I can reach the Elasticsearch with port forwarding "localhost:9200" without authentication.
How can I add a basic user/pass authentication in this file? I would be…

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Getting "TLSv1.3 is not supported" error while connecting to elastic search using Java Transport Client
I am trying to connect to elastic search (7.8) securely through Java transport client. I have used x-pack to secure elastic search connectivity. I am not able to create an object of Client due to below error.
2020-08-13 17:43:24 [main] DEBUG…

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Elasticsearch 5.6 authentication
I am usig elasticsearch 5.6 version.
Is there a way to add password to elassticsearch without an x-pack plugin and gold license?
I saw that x-pack supports security with basic license, but only from 6.8 version.
Currently, I can't upgrade…

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How to understand the elasticsearch performance of 'Search Latency' on x-pack
I am testing the elasticsearch cluster perfomence. I use X-Pack to monitor the elasticseach performance.
The test program only search on one index.
Test program code :
test program main logic
The result on kibana :
x-pack show about perform of…

Gensheng Mo
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Kibana 7.7.0 Basic version: management tab missing Security panel when started from docker
Context: I want to use XPACK in order to control which user can see which Dasboard only with free version.
I downloaded Kibana 7.7.0 zip from here, installed it and I can see Security options to create users/roles. In fact, I created an index, an…

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