# JWT token support with ELK 7.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312 "2019-06-12T03:12:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![chenww](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chenww/32/47911_2.png) [@chenww](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenww)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/1 "2019-06-12T03:12:45Z")

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Wonder if JWT token is supported in new ELK . 7.1 release or not with security packs. Please confirm this as open distro branches for this already.

thanks

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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:** [June 12, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/2 "2019-06-12T03:29:38Z")

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If you mean on the Basic license, no it's not sorry.

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**Author:** ![chenww](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chenww/32/47911_2.png) [@chenww](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenww)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/3 "2019-06-12T14:34:23Z")

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Thanks for the response. Do you know what license and pack are needed to get this feature?

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**Author:** ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/4 "2019-06-12T19:59:22Z")

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Could you be more specific as to what you mean with `JWT token` support ?

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**Author:** ![chenww](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chenww/32/47911_2.png) [@chenww](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenww)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/5 "2019-06-13T00:10:18Z")

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I am looking at the equivalent support like this [https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/community/tree/master/jwt-tokens](https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/community/tree/master/jwt-tokens)

thanks

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**Author:** ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/6 "2019-06-13T09:16:15Z")

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Hi there, we don't offer an authentication solution that uses JWT as the format of the authentication tokens.

We do offer two [solutions](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/token-authentication-services.html) :

- Token based authentication
- API key based authentication

so you can hopefully satisfy the same use cases

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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 11, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jwt-token-support-with-elk-7-1/185312/7 "2019-07-11T09:16:21Z")

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