# How to enable "Continue as Guest" on Kibana?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 25, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713 "2023-09-25T08:00:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Ong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ong)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713/1 "2023-09-25T08:00:30Z")
I would like to enable "Continue as Guest" on Kibana and have followed the [elastic docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.3/kibana-authentication.html#_anonymous_access_and_other_types_of_authentication) but it did not work.
My setup is a Kibana container running on Kubernetes that connects to a backend Elasticsearch. Kibana can start and run without errors. I am also able to log in with a valid user. However, the "Continue as Guest" anonymous access button just does not appear.
My Kibana configmap is as follows:
```auto
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
data:
kibana.yml: |
server.basePath: "/kibana"
server.rewriteBasePath: "true"
server.publicBaseUrl: "https://abc/kibana"
elasticsearch.hosts: "http://xyz:9200"
xpack.security.authc.providers:
basic.basic1:
order: 0
anonymous.anonymous1:
order: 1
credentials:
username: "user"
password: "password"
```
What other config is missing or incorrect?
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### Author:  [@Priscilla\_Parodi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priscilla_Parodi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713/2 "2023-10-01T22:50:08Z")
Hello @Ong,
Did you create the anonymous user and role? It needs to use a real username and password.
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### Author:  [@Priscilla\_Parodi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priscilla_Parodi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713/3 "2023-10-01T23:01:10Z")
Question: What version are you using? This was introduced in [7.11](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-kibana-7-11-0-alerting-generally-available).
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### Author:  [@Ong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ong)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713/4 "2023-10-03T06:03:33Z")
Yes, I created a "guest" account for this purpose. I am using Kibana version 8.3.2 running as a Docker container on Kubernetes. It connects to an Elasticsearch cluster also on 8.3.2 hosted on the ECE platform.
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### Author:  [@Priscilla\_Parodi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priscilla_Parodi)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713/5 "2023-10-04T00:05:37Z")
Could you please confirm if you followed all of [these steps](https://github.com/elastic/support-knowledge-articles/issues/1752)?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-continue-as-guest-on-kibana/343713/6 "2023-11-01T00:05:48Z")
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