# Anonymous Kibana Users

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-kibana-users/270071>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-kibana-users/270071 "2021-04-14T00:35:53Z")\
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@caitlyn.carlisle

Ok we have it 🙂

If I understand correctly, What you want to accomplish is enable the ability for a user to anonymous login to view Kibana dashboards etc. That is supported in Elastic Cloud, what is not supported is underlying anonymous access to elasticsearch. That is where the confusion lay.

So this is how you do it.

Reference [Here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.12/kibana-authentication.html#anonymous-authentication).. and there is even a little video on it [here](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-kibana-7-11-0-alerting-generally-available) . Note the docs link to 7.11 so make sure you use the latest.

First create the user and role as you would via Kibana.

Then add the setting to the` kibana.yml`

```
xpack.security.authc.providers:
  basic.basic1: <!-- This is the normal login
    order: 0  
  anonymous.anonymous1: <!-- This is the anonymous login
    order: 1
    credentials:
      username: "test"
      password: "askldjfhaslkdjf1654"

```

 ![Screen Shot 2021-04-13 at 7.05.03 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/a/0add8a4d89b1f5b7109174374ebb14d15980f40e.png)

Then you should be able to get a login with this

 ![Screen Shot 2021-04-13 at 7.10.17 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/1/0171636790544d5b4347b0fc1c41934ccac7414d.png)

I set up to see Discover

 ![Screen Shot 2021-04-13 at 7.17.22 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/5/e5925ce1cd159172bd6f06ef091b95f99ed215fb.png)

Let us know if that works...

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