Search Guard Documentation

This is the official documentation for Search Guard 2 and Search Guard 5. If you find any errors, or want to contribute, feel free to fork this repository and issue pull requests.

Unless stated otherwise, all instructions apply for Search Guard 2 and Search Guard 5. If there are differences between the versions, this will be made clear in the documentation.

floragunn GmbH is not affiliated with Elasticsearch BV.

Search Guard is a trademark of floragunn GmbH, registered in the U.S. and in other countries

Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats are trademarks of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S. and in other countries.

Copyright 2016-2017 floragunn GmbH

Table of contents

Preface

Installation

Configuring Search Guard SSL

Configuring Search Guard

Authentication and Authorisation

Document- and Field-Level-Security

Audit Logging

REST Management API

Integrating with the Elastic Stack

Addendum

Search Guard End Of Life policy