- X-Pack Reference for 6.0-6.2 and 5.x:
- Introduction
- Setting Up X-Pack
- Breaking Changes
- X-Pack APIs
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Reporting from Kibana
- Securing the Elastic Stack
- Getting Started with Security
- How Security Works
- Setting Up User Authentication
- Configuring SAML Single-Sign-On on the Elastic Stack
- Configuring Role-based Access Control
- Auditing Security Events
- Encrypting Communications
- Restricting Connections with IP Filtering
- Cross Cluster Search, Tribe, Clients and Integrations
- Reference
- Monitoring the Elastic Stack
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Machine Learning in the Elastic Stack
- Troubleshooting
- Getting Help
- X-Pack security
- Can’t log in after upgrading to 6.2.4
- Some settings are not returned via the nodes settings API
- Authorization exceptions
- Users command fails due to extra arguments
- Users are frequently locked out of Active Directory
- Certificate verification fails for curl on Mac
- SSLHandshakeException causes connections to fail
- Common SSL/TLS exceptions
- Internal Server Error in Kibana
- Setup-passwords command fails due to connection failure
- X-Pack Watcher
- X-Pack monitoring
- X-Pack machine learning
- Limitations
- License Management
- Release Notes
WARNING: Version 6.2 of the Elastic Stack has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Installing X-Pack
editInstalling X-Pack
editYou must install Elasticsearch and Kibana before you install X-Pack. If you plan to use the X-Pack features in Logstash, you must also install Logstash before you install X-Pack. For more information, see:
You must install the version of X-Pack that matches the version of each product. For more information about product compatibility, see the Elastic Support Matrix.
To install X-Pack on the Elastic stack:
The following diagram provides an overview of the steps that are required to set up X-Pack on each product:
The X-Pack installation scripts require direct internet access to download and install X-Pack. If your servers don’t have internet access, you can manually download the X-Pack zip file and transfer it to a temporary directory on the offline machines. The plugins for Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash are all included in a single zip file. For more information about installing X-Pack on offline machines, see the product-specific X-Pack installation instructions.
Enabling and Disabling X-Pack Features
editBy default, all X-Pack features are enabled. You can enable or disable specific
X-Pack features in the elasticsearch.yml
, kibana.yml
, and logstash.yml
configuration files.
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For more information about which settings exist in each configuration file, see X-Pack Settings.
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