I am using ELK cluster consists of three nodes. I can't access Kibana using its URL https://kibana_IP:5601. When I checked the logs of /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log I found these errors: Authentication of [elastic] was terminated by realm [reserved] - failed to authenticate user [elasti…

Hi @carly.richmond Thanks for your support! The problem has been solved using the followings: Stop elasticsearch service on all cluster nodes using systemctl stop elasticsearch Set xpack.security.enabled: false in elasticsearch.yml on all nodes, and restart elasticsearch on all nodes using s…

I can't authenticate using 'elastic' , 'kibana_system' in ELK version 8.5

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carly.richmond (Carly Richmond) May 15, 2023, 3:50pm 2

Hi @linux_admin,

Have you checked the health of the cluster using the _cluster/health API??

Do you have the password for the elastic and kibana_system users? There is also a useful way to check passwords in this topic.

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I can't authenticate using 'elastic' , 'kibana_system' in ELK version 8.5

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