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Elasticsearch security

Access to elastic can be secured by user/password or apikey

User+Password

Elastic will be accessed by Basic-Authentication

  • create a user and a role in elastic and define a password via kibana
  • configure insight.properties
  • elastic.username=user
  • elastic.password=password

ElasticUser ElasticRole

Please define a different user and role for Monitoring used in insight-status.bat and Logstash(insight-logging.conf)

MonitorUser MonitorRole

Apikey

Create an apikey in Elastic and configure insight.properties - elastic.apikey=apikey