Disabled xpack security plugin in Kibana 8

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

Perhaps take a look at this.

Filebeat on local laptop does not talk to the Elasticsearch (also on local laptop) - dial tcp [::1]:9200: connect: cannot assign requested address

Alright, I finally managed to get a shiny new local setup up and running! Thank you Stephen for your suggestions! What I ended up doing is: -- downloaded and installed Elasticseach, Kibana and Filebeat, all of version 8.4.3 , all from gz archives -- before starting ES for the first time - updated its elasticsearch.yml - added the following settings (2 that Stephen suggested and one more I found online - for good measure ): xpack.security.autoconfiguration.enabled: false xpack…