# Automatically Kibana Login

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940 "2022-09-08T04:27:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irwan_kurniawan/32/101755_2.png) [@Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irwan_Kurniawan)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/1 "2022-09-08T04:27:05Z")

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I have login page on my own website. How can I pass the login information from my own website to Kibana login so the user no need to login twice?

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**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/2 "2022-09-09T12:29:35Z")

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You need to go through the `User authentication` documentation

> **[User authentication | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.4\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setting-up-authentication.html)**

It will really be up to how your site works to incorporate Single Sign Own to your stack.

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**Author:** ![Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irwan_kurniawan/32/101755_2.png) [@Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irwan_Kurniawan)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/3 "2022-09-12T03:55:03Z")

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Which authentication that suitable with this case? I saw the link and it explain how to make username and password to login in Kibana. If only that, I already made it using Minimal Security Authentication.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/8/a8cef0f1afbf85d50d72853ee777e09acb31028d.png)

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/4 "2022-09-12T05:09:12Z")

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Which License are you using?

To do what you want you need to use something like Single SIgn-On, which is only available with a paid license, if you are using the free basic license you won't be able to use that.

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**Author:** ![Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irwan_kurniawan/32/101755_2.png) [@Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irwan_Kurniawan)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/5 "2022-09-12T06:14:14Z")

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I used the free one. Which authentication that can used if I free basic license?

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**Author:** ![cheshirecat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheshirecat/32/109532_2.png) [@cheshirecat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheshirecat)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/6 "2022-09-12T11:09:29Z")

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You have to generate passwords for built-in accounts.

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**Author:** ![Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irwan_kurniawan/32/101755_2.png) [@Irwan\_Kurniawan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irwan_Kurniawan)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/7 "2022-09-12T11:23:44Z")

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It have been done. I can login on Kibana and create User and Role by myself. My first question is how to make it auto login on Kibana when I login on my own website so the user no need to login again in Kibana.

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/8 "2022-09-12T12:21:36Z")

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> [@Irwan\_Kurniawan](#):
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> My first question is how to make it auto login on Kibana when I login on my own website so the user no need to login again in Kibana.

As I said, this is not possible with the basic license.

What you want is called Single Sign-On, which is not available in the basic license, it is a paid feature.

The authentication methods available in Kibana are listed [in this part of the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/realms.html).

The free basic license only supports the internal authentication methods which are the **file** and **native** from the above link.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-kibana-login/313940/9 "2022-10-10T12:22:26Z")

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