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Security
Getting Started
What is Search Guard?
Key Concepts
Quickstart
Demo Installer (Fastest)
Manual Installation
Your First Steps
Adding Users
Configuring Roles
Mapping Users to Roles
Testing the Configuration
Editions and Licensing
Feature Comparison
Community Edition
Academic and Scientific Licensing
OEM Licensing
Installation and Setup
Installation
TLS Certificate Setup
Quick Setup (TLS Tool)
Alternative (Installer)
Configuring TLS
Certificate Revocation
TLS Hot Reload
Versions and Compatibility
Available Versions
Compatibility Matrix
End of Life Policy
Upgrades and Migrations
Upgrading Between Minor Versions
Upgrading from FLX 1.x to 2.x
Upgrading from 7.x to 8.x
Migrating from Classic to FLX
Migration Overview
Quick Start
Production Migration
Feature Mapping
FLX Release Notes
Configuration
Configuration Overview
Demo Users and Roles
Configuration Tools
Using sgctl (CLI)
Basic Usage
Common Examples
Making Changes
System Administration
Configuration GUI (Kibana)
REST API
Access Control
Usage and Return Values
Internal Users API
Roles API
Role Mappings API
Action Groups API
Tenants API
Blocks API
License API
Cache API
Bulk Requests
Reserved and Hidden Resources
Configuration Variables
Configuration Index Maintenance
Authentication
Authentication Overview
General Configuration
Introduction to sg_authc
Advanced User Mapping
Advanced Options
Authentication Methods
Internal Users Database
Basic Authentication
Active Directory / LDAP
Quick Start
Advanced Configuration
JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Quick Start
Advanced Configuration
Kerberos / SPNEGO
Proxy Authentication
Quick Start
Advanced Configuration
Client Certificate Authentication
Anonymous Authentication
Search Guard Auth Tokens
Authorization
Authorization Overview
Mapping Users to Roles
Role Mapping Modes
Defining Roles
Roles (Legacy 2.x format)
Action Groups
Runtime Privilege Evaluation
Advanced Topics
User Impersonation
Fine-Grained Access Control
Document-Level Security
Basics
Attribute-Based DLS
Advanced Topics
Field-Level Security
Basics
Field Anonymization
Audit and Compliance
Audit Logging Overview
Audit Configuration
Storage Types
Event Routing
Field Reference
Compliance Features
Read History
Write History
Immutable Indices
Configuration Change Tracking
Elasticsearch System Changes
Kibana
Installing the Kibana Plugin
Kibana Authentication
Authentication Types Overview
Basic Authentication
Configuration
Customizing Login Page
OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Quick Start
Advanced Configuration
SAML
Quick Start
Advanced Configuration
Troubleshooting
Proxy Authentication
Kerberos
JWT URL Parameters
Anonymous Authentication
Multiple Authentication Methods
Multi-Tenancy
Advanced Topics
Read-Only Mode
Using the Kibana API
Embedding Kibana in IFrame
Production Deployment
Production Checklist
TLS for Production
Security Hardening
Performance Tuning
Monitoring and Maintenance
Backup and Recovery
Integrations
Elastic Stack Components
Logstash
X-Pack Monitoring
X-Pack Alerting
X-Pack Machine Learning
Elasticsearch Features
Cross-Cluster Search
Snapshot and Restore
Third-Party Tools
Cerebro
Fluentd
Grafana
Advanced Topics
OEM Features
SSL-Only Mode
Index Restore
Inter-Node Traffic Evaluator
Custom Principal Extractor
Injecting SSLContext
Disabling or Removing Search Guard
Troubleshooting
General Troubleshooting
Setting Log Levels
TLS Issues
Authentication Issues
Users and Roles
Permissions
Kibana Issues
General Kibana Issues
Multi-Tenancy Issues
Changelogs
Search Guard Security
Kibana Plugin
TLS Tool
Security Glossary
Version: SG FLX
Search Guard FLX 3.1.1
Release Date: 2025-06-02
Fixes
Update dependencies
SGCTL
Update dependencies
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