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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.

2022: Our Year in Review

Search Guard || 2022-12-15

As the year comes to a close, we would like to take a moment to reflect on the last 12 months. Below are some key aspects we would like to acknowledge and share.

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

A List of Useful TLS Links

Jochen Kressin || 2022-11-29

We compiled a list of useful links that help you when working with TLS.

The floragunn Story

floragunn || 2022-11-21

It didn't start in a garage, at least not right away.

The Principles Behind Search Guard

Claudia Kressin || 2022-11-11

The core values and ethics driving the development of Search Guard, our enterprise security and alerting solution for Elasticsearch and Kibana

When Single Sign On is not enough: Supporting multiple authentication methods in Kibana

Jochen Kressin || 2022-08-10

In this post we have a look at how to set up Kibana with multiple authentication types: OIDC and the internal user database.

Elasticsearch Security Configuration Variables

Handling Configuration Variables in Search Guard FLX

Jochen Kressin || 2022-08-09

This article will show you how you can use the new configuration variables feature in FLX to separately store secrets and get rid of any sensitive information in configuration files.

sgctl - Take back control

Jochen Kressin || 2022-08-08

In this article, we look at the new sgctl command line interface that ships with Search Guard FLX and demonstrate how easy it has become to configure security for Elasticsearch.

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