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Documentation
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Frequently asked questions

What is Search Guard?
Search Guard is a comprehensive Security and Alerting suite for Elasticsearch and Kibana that provides authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging and alerting to ensure data security and compliance.
What is your licensing model?
Search Guard is dual licensed. All basic security features in the Community Edition are free, while you need to obtain a license in order to use the Enterprise or Compliance Edition in production. We license Search Guard per production cluster, not number of nodes. Our license has no limits regarding the number of nodes, so you can scale your cluster indefinitely without additional costs. All other systems, like development, staging, integration, test and the like are included in the license. Scale your cluster, not your cost!
Which versions of Elasticsearch does Search Guard support?
Search Guard supports nearly all versions of Elasticsearch, starting from Elasticsearch 2.x and including Elasticsearch 8.x. For more information, please check the version matrix page on our docs.
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Source Code
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TLS Certificate Generator
If you need TLS certificates for testing or a PoC, our generator web service is here to ease the pain.

Blog

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Presentations
Browse our library of presentations on all Search Guard features.
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White Papers
Download our whitepapers on Search Guard use cases and implementation examples.
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CVE advisory
We are the official CVE numbering authority for Search Guard. Browse the list of known issues.
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Disclosure Policy
If you have found a security related issue, please read our disclosure policy.

Videos

Search Guard - Security and Alerting for Elasticsearch
Unlike competitor products, Search Guard is licensed per cluster, not per node count. We have already helped our customers save millions in licensing fees. Join Search Guard and scale your cluster, not your cost!
Search Guard offers free enterprise licenses to educational institutions and non-profit organizations, allowing them to fully leverage the power of Elasticsearch while ensuring data security and compliance
A quick introduction to Kerberos and its most important components.
How to use the Search Guard FLX Variables store to manage your configuration secrets for Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Search Guard FLX supports multiple authentication methods for Kibana, so users can choose how they would like to authenticate.
Nice little weekend project: Porting Search Guard to the Commodore 64. Had to refresh my Basic V2 skills a bit, but it was doable ;)
We demonstrate how to use the sgctl command line interface to change the security configuration of an Elasticsearch cluster.
We demonstrate how to use the Search Guard TLS Tool to generate TLS certificates for Elasticsearch.
In this webinar, we look into the Zero Trusted Networks approach and how it can be applied to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
How you can create sophisticated Elasticsearch Watches by using the Blocks Mode in Signals Alerting.
How to create a Signals Watch that monitors an Elasticsearch cluster for health and displays memory consumption in a Kibana dashboard.
Search Guard for Elasticsearch comes with a number of features that help you keep compliant with regulations like GDRP.
How to use Signals Alerting for Elasticsearch to configure a simple alert that checks your Elasticsearch data for anomalies and sends out notifications via Slack.
This video demonstrates how to quickly add new Search Guard, users how to create Search Guard roles, and how to use advanced features like document- and field-level security.
Webinar introducing Signals, the free Alerting solution for Elasticsearch from the makers of Search Guard.
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