Authentication with Kibana in HTML Iframe

[lukas (Lukas Olson)]

Hi!

This is something that is frequently posted on the forums here. A quick search might be helpful here:

https://discuss.elastic.co/search?q=iframe+authentication

Specifically these:

Authenticating to iframe-embedded Kibana dashboard

Sorry for the delay, @rupaln and sorry for giving incomplete advice. I was able to get the Kibana server to respond with a cookie header by POSTing to /api/security/v1/login with a JSON request body of { "password": "<YOURPASSWORD>", "username": "<YOURUSERNAME>" } and the appropriate kbn-version: 5.1.1 header.

Auto-authenticating to iframe-embedded Kibana dashboard

@tsullivan @Alex_Piggott @Francisca_Lima and others interested. Looks like you should use proxy_set_header Host $proxy_host; instead of proxy_set_header Host $host; $proxy_host takes host value from proxy_pass directive, while $host will contain your server_name. And apparently, Kibana from Elastic Cloud requires an original host to determine target cluster ID. Works for me without proxifying any additional X-Found-Cluster headers.