# Is there a way to hide mappings?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-hide-mappings/44136>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 11, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-hide-mappings/44136 "2016-03-11T10:21:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![philv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@philv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/philv)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-hide-mappings/44136/1 "2016-03-11T10:21:36Z")

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Is there a way to stop casual users examining the mappings in an es instance ? Encrypting it for example, We have to assume here that access to the http service could be turned on and the mappings file examined from there. So it should be encrypted. Would this be a plugin or some such ?

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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:** [March 12, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-hide-mappings/44136/2 "2016-03-12T01:54:51Z")

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Not out of the box.

Our Security (a la Shield) product can do it.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-hide-mappings/44136/3 "2017-07-05T23:09:00Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:09pm UTC