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Search Guard resource hub including blog posts, faq, documentation, presentations and whitepapers.
faq
Community forum
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Frequently asked questions
What is Search Guard?
Search Guard is an Enterprise Security Suite that encrypts and protects your data and data flows in the entire Elastic Stack, including Kibana, Logstash and Beats.
Do you offer support?
Of course. We offer both free support for the Search Guard community as well as paid support for our customers. As paying customer you get direct access to the core Search Guard developers and we also guarantee SLAs via our support portal.
What is the easiest way to set up PoC?
The easiest way to set up a PoC and try out all Search Guard features is to use the Search Guard Demo Installer: Search Guard Demo Installer The installer comes with a trial license that enables all Enterprise and Compliance features for 60 days. If you need to extend your Search Guard trial, just get in contact with us and we’re happy to provide you with an extended license.
Source Code
Access, download and inspect all our code on Gitlab, report any issue you find or request a feature.
TLS Certificate Generator
If you need TLS certificates for testing or a PoC, our generator web service is here to ease the pain.
Blog
Search Guard v43 is out
Jochen Kressin || 2020-07-07
Search Guard v43 for Elasticsearch 7.8.0 is available now, containing bug fixes and new features like certificate hot reloading or a new and improved Alerting ...
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Happy Birthday Search Guard and welcome new ...
Jochen Kressin || 2020-06-17
Search Guard, the enterprise security and alerting plugin for Elasticsearch was first released exactly four years ago. Happy Birthday! ...
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Search Guard Academic & Scientific programme
Claudia Kressin || 2020-06-02
We provide Search Guard Enterprise and Compliance licenses free of charge to non-profit academic and scientific corporations ...
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The Painless Painless Primer
Nils Bandener || 2020-05-05
A quick entry into the Painless programming language for Elasticsearch which can be used to write scripts for Signals Alerting ...
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Proxy authentication using TLS certificates
Aki Abramowski || 2020-02-24
The new Search Guard proxy authentication module for Elasticsearch and Kibana supports IP as well as TLS certificate authentication. ...
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Alerting: Creating webhook actions
Sergii Bondarenko || 2020-02-19
How to use the Signals Alerting Kibana plugin to create Elasticsearch alerts and push notifications to any webhook endpoint ...
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White Papers
Download our whitepapers on Search Guard use cases and implementation examples.
CVE advisory
We are the official CVE numbering authority for Search Guard. Browse the list of known issues.
Disclosure Policy
If you have found a security related issue, please read our disclosure policy.
