# Kibana not starting for enabling AD security

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-for-enabling-ad-security/199417>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [September 13, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-for-enabling-ad-security/199417 "2019-09-13T11:27:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-starting-for-enabling-ad-security/199417/6 "2019-09-13T16:17:50Z")

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The first answer here is still valid for 7.x regarding AD and Kibana: [Kibana 5.3.0 Active Directory authentication](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-3-0-active-directory-authentication/82289)

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