How to set authentication in kibana
Is it possible to enable authentication in Kibana in order to restrict access to a dashboard to only be accessible to particular users? Luděk Veselý Kibana itself doesn't support authentication or restricting access to dashboards. You can restrict access to Kibana 4 using nginx as a proxy in front of Kibana as described here: https://serverfault.com/a/345244 . Just set proxy_pass to port 5601 and disable this port on firewall for others. This will completly enable or disable Kibana. Elastic also has a tool called Shield which enables you to manage security of elasticsearch. With Shield you can