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Security for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch: Better Than Ever

Nils Bandener || 2022-03-08

In the past few months, we have been busy working on the next generation of Search Guard. Right now, we are very close to the actual general availability release.

2021: A Year In Review

Search Guard || 2021-12-23

As this year comes to a close, we wanted to reflect on the key releases, events and milestones for our company and the community.

Elastic license changes do not affect Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2021-08-04

The changes in the Elastic license schema do not affect Search Guard in any way. We continue to support new Elasticsearch version as they come out.

Happy Birthday Search Guard: Five Years Old and Still Going Strong!

Claudia Kressin || 2021-06-30

Happy Birthday Search Guard! Let's take a quick look back at the last year, share what we've been up to lately, let you know what's coming, and perhaps even squeeze in a piece of cake.

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.

Amazon OpenSearch and Search Guard

Claudia Kressin || 2021-04-20

With the advent of OpenSearch, an Elasticsearch fork driven forward by Amazon AWS, Search Guard users have now even more options to choose from.

Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Jochen Kressin || 2021-02-03

Elastic will change the license for Elasticsearch and Kibana from Apache2 to the non Open Source SSPL license.

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?

Helpful Hint: Assign roles based on IPs or hostnames

Jochen Kressin || 2020-11-19

How to dynamically assign Search Guard roles based on the IP address or the hostname of the caller.

Exclude Elasticsearch permissions from Search Guard roles

Jochen Kressin || 2020-11-18

How to combine including and excluding Elasticsearch permissions for Search Guard roles to create flexible and dynamic access controls.

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