# Kibana free authentication **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 10, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497 "2020-04-10T12:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/1 "2020-04-10T12:24:30Z")
Dears, Is there any option to configure Kibana (ELK 7.6.2) free authentication without x-pack? Best Regads, d ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/2 "2020-04-10T13:07:52Z")
Hi @d.silwon, Kibana offers free authentication as part of our Basic license. This includes many x-pack features for free, and does not require any registration to use. The full list of features is available here: [https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) ---
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/3 "2020-04-10T13:26:16Z")
Hi @Larry_Gregory , Which is the free authorization type? In official documention for Kibana we have: Basic authentication Token authentication Public key infrastructure (PKI) authentication SAML single sign-on OpenID Connect single sign-on Kerberos single sign-on Is there need to enable xpack in elasticsearch configuration? Thanks a lot Regards, d ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/4 "2020-04-10T13:33:04Z")
The short version is that you can manage users and roles within Kibana/Elasticsearch for free (these are the `native` and `file` [realms](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/realms.html#realms)). The paid authentication realms are generally those which connect to external identity providers, such as Kerberos, SAML, Open ID Connect, Kerberos, PKI, etc. Kibana can be configured to use either the `basic` or `token` auth providers in conjunction with the free `native` and `file` realms described above. ---
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/5 "2020-04-10T14:09:28Z")
Thanks a lot for explanation. Regards, d ---
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/6 "2020-04-10T14:21:29Z")
Is there any good doc which describe step by step how to turn on such type of authorization? d ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/7 "2020-04-10T14:24:56Z")
There's a great blog post here with instructions: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-security](https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-security) ---
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/8 "2020-04-10T14:31:24Z")
Nice doc but I'm not shure if this described method is free of charge because there are enabled some paid options in the configuration: xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: elastic-certificates.p12 xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: elastic-certificates.p12 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/9 "2020-04-10T14:42:30Z")
As far as I'm aware, everything in that blog post is describing free features. The settings you referenced are for securing node-to-node communications ---
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/10 "2020-04-10T14:47:17Z")
OK, thank you very much ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-free-authentication/227497/11 "2020-05-08T14:47:28Z")
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