Search Guard Editions
Search Guard Community Edition
- Covers all essential Security and Alerting needs
- Free of charge
- Integrated with the entire Elastic Stack
Search Guard Enterprise Edition
- Integrates with all major security standards
- Field-level and Document-level Security
- Management API and Kibana Multitenancy
Search Guard Compliance Edition
- Designed for meeting compliance regulations e.g. GDPR
- Record all read-and-write access to data
- Monitor integrity of Elasticsearch installation
Feature Breakdown
feature | community edition | enterprise edition | Compliance edition |
|---|---|---|---|
Encryption | |||
REST encryption |  |  |  |
Inter-node encryption | | | |
PEM and JKS support | | | |
OpenSLL support | | | |
Access control | |||
Role-based access control | | | |
Transport- and HTTP access control | | | |
Cluster-level access control | | | |
Index-level access control | | | |
Document-level access control | | | |
Field-level access control | | | |
Field anonymization | | ||
Immutable indices | | ||
Authentication | |||
Internal user management | | | |
HTTP Basic authentication | | | |
PKI authentication | | | |
Proxy authentication | | | |
LDAP / Active Directory | | | |
Kerberos / SPNEGO | | | |
JSON web tokens | | | |
OpenID Connect | | | |
SAML | | | |
Custom implementations | | | |
Authorization | |||
Internal group managemet | | | |
Proxy headers | | | |
LDAP / Active Directory | | | |
JSON web tokens | | | |
SAML | | | |
Audit logging and compliance | |||
Security audit logging | | | |
Read-access audit logging | | ||
Write-access audit logging | | ||
Configuration change tracking | | ||
System change tracking | | ||
Alerting | |||
Elasticsearch data sources | | | |
External data sources | | | |
Escalation levels | | | |
Throttling and Acknowledgement | | | |
Email, Slack and Webhook actions | | | |
PagerDuty action | | | |
JIRA action | | | |
Configuration | |||
No cluster reboot | | | |
REST management API | | | |
Configuration GUI | | | |
Kibana | |||
Kibana access control | | | |
Kibana feature control | | | |
Single Sign On | | | |
Multi tenancy | | | |
Compatibility | |||
Kibana, logstash and beats | | | |
Cross-cluster search | | | |
Cross-cluster replication | | | |
Elastic Stack Monitoring | | | |
Elastic Stack Machine Learning | | | |
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