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Download Search Guard and install it — your 60-day trial of every Enterprise and Compliance feature activates automatically. No registration, no license key, no credit card. Prefer the forever-free Community Edition? Same download.
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Two ways to get started
We provide a Docker based demo including Elasticsearch and Kibana with Search Guard and Signals Alerting pre-installed:
docker run -it --rm -p 5601:5601 -p 9200:9200 floragunncom/search-guard-flx-demoAfter the container is up you can access Kibana on:
http://localhost:5601
Elasticsearch runs on:
https://localhost:9200
The container comes with some pre-installed demo users. For full access and to configure new roles and permissions, use admin/admin for login.
The trial license is active inside the container too — every feature is there to explore.
bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///path/to/search-guard-plugin.zip
cd plugins/search-guard/tools
./install_demo_configuration.sh
bin/elasticsearch
That's it — your 60-day trial is now active. Check the license status in the Elasticsearch log on startup or via the license endpoint (see docs).
Kubernetes: We provide Helm Charts for running Search Guard on Kubernetes.
Everything unlocked for 60 days
- SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP / Active Directory and Kerberos
- Document- and field-level security
- Kibana multi-tenancy
- Audit logging and compliance tracking
- Encryption at rest
- Signals alerting with all integrations
- Preview features: Index Management and Anomaly Detection
- Full documentation and community forum
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