Setting Up OIDC Authentication for Kibana with Search Guard FLX
Daniel Gleim || 2026-02-25
In this guide, we'll walk through the process of configuring Keycloak OIDC authentication for Kibana using the Search Guard FLX security plugin.
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Search Guard Signals - Elasticsearch Alerting for Free
Daniel Gleim || 2025-11-19
SearchGuard Signals is a free alerting solution for Elasticsearch and Kibana that helps detect and notify you of events that require your attention.
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Writing Kibana Plugins, Part 4: Adding Routes
Jochen Kressin || 2023-03-21
In the fourth part of our series, we will add some routes to the server to get, add and delete data to our sample index.
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Writing Kibana Plugins - Part 3: Calling the Elasticsearch API
Jochen Kressin || 2023-03-10
In this article, we explore how a Kibana plugin can communicate with Elasticsearch to index and fetch data using the Elasticsearch JavaScript Client
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Writing Kibana Plugins - Part 2: A Skeleton Plugin
Jochen Kressin || 2022-12-08
We walk you through the initialisation and lifecycle methods of a Kibana plugin and explain the plugin's metadata
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Writing Kibana plugins, part 1: Plugin Basics
Sergii Bondarenko || 2021-04-30
In this first part of a four part series, we guide you through the process of writing your own plugins for Kibana.
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Kibana Multi-Tenancy Explained
Cliff Staley || 2020-11-24
How does Kibana Multi Tenancy work? How can I create and assigns tenants? And how is a tenant different from a Search Guard role?
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Using Kerberos with Elasticsearch and Kibana
Cliff Stayley || 2019-01-16
How to setup Kerberos authentication for Elasticsearch and Kibana by using Search Guard, the enterprise security suite for Elasticsearch.
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Kibana Multi Tenancy with Search Guard
Jochen Kressin || 2018-10-08
Search Guard provides Kibana multi tenancy, which makes it possible to separate Dashboards and Visualizations on a per-role basis.
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Using SAML for Kibana Single Sign On
Jochen Kressin || 2018-08-16
Search Guard fully supports for SAML, so you can use your favorite identity provider like Keycloak, Okta or Auth0 to implement easy Kibana Single Sign-On.
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Kibana Single Sign-On with OpenID and Keycloak
Jochen Kressin || 2018-07-12
Use Search Guard to implement Kibana Single Sign On with OpenID. Use your favorite identity provider like Keycloak, Okta or Auth0 with the Elastic stack.
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What’s new in Search Guard 6: The configuration GUI
Jochen Kressin || 2018-01-22
The Kibana configuration UI for Search Guard provides an easy and intuitive way to manage users, roles and permissions.
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