Security

Security is a fundamental feature of X-Pack as, without it, anyone can open any URL. Security will give them unlimited access, including to index patterns, data, visualizations, and dashboards of Kibana. During X-Pack installation and setup, we need to create the default user credentials, but after that, we have dedicated user and role options from which we can create roles and users, and then can assign these roles to the users. To create users and roles, we need to click on the management link from the left menu, which opens the following Management screen:

Here, we can see the Management screen, where we have users and roles option ...

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