How to enable authentication for the Kibana dashboard using Apache webserver on Centos 7

How to enable authentication for the Kibana dashboard using Apache webserver on Centos 7

 

Date: 07-11-2020

 

Introduction:

 

Kibana is an open-source data visualization dashboard for Elasticsearch. Monitoring, managing, and securing an Elastic Stack instance via the web interface. The Kibana dashboard is a collection of charts, graphs, metrics, searches, and maps that have been collected together onto a single panel. By default, Kibana doesn’t support authentication for the dashboard so you can set up by using the following steps.

 

Step 01: First, you have to install the apache webserver.

 

Step 02: Once the apache webserver installed, You can create an HTTP username and provide the password by using the below command.

 

# htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/conf/.htpasswd kibanaadminNew password: # set passwordRe-type new password: # confirm the same passwordWe have created the password for user name "kibanaadmin"

 

Step 03: We need to add created username and password details in the apache config file. By default, the Kibana dashboard works on port 5601. We can access the dashboard as monitor.pheonixsolutions.com rather than monitor.pheonixsolutions.com:5601 so you have to add the Proxypass rule on the config file. Add the following lines in the config file. blog.pheonixsolutions.com/how-to-enable-authentication-fo...

Done