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.
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Copyright 2016 floragunn GmbH
- Frontmatter
- Overview
- Architecture
- Quickstart
- Installing Search Guard
- Search Guard Main Concepts
- Configuration basics
- Using sgadmin
- REST management API
- HTTP Basic Authentication
- Internal user database
- LDAP and Active Directory
- Kerberos
- [JSON Web token] (jwt.md)
- Proxies and SSO authentication
- Document- and field-level security
- Audit Logging
- Using Search Guard with Kibana
- Using Search Guard with logstash
- Snapshot & Restore
- Search Guard index management
- Tribe nodes
- Addendum A: Configuration Examples
- [Addendum B: Permission settings Examples](addendum_b_permission settings examples.md)