# How to create basic authentication for Kibana dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-basic-authentication-for-kibana-dashboard/245195>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-basic-authentication-for-kibana-dashboard/245195 "2020-08-17T08:27:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![devwinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@devwinner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devwinner)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-basic-authentication-for-kibana-dashboard/245195/1 "2020-08-17T08:27:29Z")

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Hi everybody. I'm using ELK stack 7.8. Everything is working fine. Now i want to add basic authentication to Kibana dashboard (simple username and pasword). How can i do it ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-basic-authentication-for-kibana-dashboard/245195/2 "2020-08-17T08:34:23Z")

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Check out [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.8/elasticsearch-security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.8/elasticsearch-security.html)

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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:** [September 14, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-basic-authentication-for-kibana-dashboard/245195/3 "2020-09-14T08:34:30Z")

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