Kibana 6.5.1 won't start up after enabling xpack security in elasticsearch

[Wietse]

Hi

I installed the Elasticsearch 6.5.1 trial platinum version because I want to use the X-Pack security functionality.

By default this is what I receive when running // GET /_xpack/

"security" : {
      "description" : "Security for the Elastic Stack",
      "available" : true,
      "enabled" : false
    }

To enable security, I add // xpack.security.enabled: true
to elasticsearch.yml

However, after doing this Kibana refuses to load.

[warning][license][xpack]
License information from the X-Pack plugin could not be obtained from Elasticsearch for the [monitoring] cluster. [security_exception] missing authentication token for REST request [/_xpack], with { header={ WWW-Authenticate="Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8"" } } :: {
"path":"/_xpack",
"statusCode":401,
"response":"{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/_xpack]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/_xpack]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""}},"status":401}","wwwAuthenticateDirective":"Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8""}

Am I missing something? Is this not possible with the trial license?

Thank you for the answer!

[ikakavas (Ioannis Kakavas)]

Hi,

Now that you enabled security, you need to configure Kibana to authenticate to elasticsearch. The steps to do so are outlined in our documentation

[Wietse]

Thank you so much for the quick reply!
I've been going through the documentation quite thoroughly but for some reason have missed that.

Cheers!