Security

Security is also part of X-Pack gold and premium subscriptions. Security for Elasticsearch is two-fold:

• User authentication to access the cluster using username and password
• Securing the communication between the nodes and the client using SSL

Authentication and roles

X-Pack provides role-based authentication. When you install X-Pack, authentication is enabled automatically. To get started, two default users are created:

Username	Password	Role
elastic	changeme	This is a superuser
kibana	changeme	To access Kibana, the user has the required permissions to talk to Elasticsearch

You can add more users or roles in the Kibana Management Console by going to the Users page. Along with creating new users, you can...