# Nothing showing on Kibana after enabling security features
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234 "2020-01-08T12:35:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Booooooo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Booooooo)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/1 "2020-01-08T12:35:14Z")
Hi,
I just followed this [tutorial](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.1/get-started-enable-security.html) on how to enable security features on the Elastic Stack. After restarting Elasticsearch and Kibana, add the password configured, I am logged in but there is nothing showing appart from an option to select your space and nothing else:
How can I fix this?
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/2 "2020-01-09T20:09:04Z")
Hey @Booooooo,
A couple of questions for you:
What version of Kibana/ES are you using?
Can you make the following _Elasticsearch_ API calls using the same username and password you used to login to Kibana, and paste the results here? Redact any sensitive information if you have names/emails in the output:
Replace [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200) in the examples below with your actual Elasticsearch URL
- [http://localhost:9200/\_security/\_authenticate](http://localhost:9200/_security/_authenticate)
- [http://localhost:9200/\_security/user/\_privileges](http://localhost:9200/_security/user/_privileges)
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### Author:  [@Booooooo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Booooooo)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/3 "2020-01-10T09:01:17Z")
Hi @Larry_Gregory,
Thanks for the reply.
I am running the Stack on 7.5.0.
**[http://localhost:9200/\_security/\_authenticate](http://localhost:9200/_security/_authenticate)**
`{"username":"kibana","roles":["kibana_system"],"full_name":null,"email":null,"metadata":{"_reserved":true},"enabled":true,"authentication_realm":{"name":"reserved","type":"reserved"},"lookup_realm":{"name":"reserved","type":"reserved"}}`
**[http://localhost:9200/\_security/user/\_privileges](http://localhost:9200/_security/user/_privileges)**
`{"cluster":["cluster:admin/xpack/monitoring/bulk","cluster:admin/xpack/security/privilege/builtin/get","delegate_pki","manage_index_templates","manage_oidc","manage_saml","manage_token","monitor"],"global":[{"application":{"manage":{"applications":["kibana-*"]}}}],"indices":[{"names":[".management-beats"],"privileges":["create_index","read","write"],"allow_restricted_indices":false},{"names":[".monitoring-*"],"privileges":["read","read_cross_cluster"],"allow_restricted_indices":false},{"names":[".code-*",".code_internal-*"],"privileges":["all"],"allow_restricted_indices":false},{"names":[".apm-agent-configuration"],"privileges":["all"],"allow_restricted_indices":false},{"names":[".kibana*",".reporting-*"],"privileges":["all"],"allow_restricted_indices":false}],"applications":[],"run_as":[]}`
I have followed the tutorial up to [this page](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.1/get-started-kibana-user.html) part, and then I stopped not to mess things up even further. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/4 "2020-01-10T13:19:40Z")
> [@Booooooo](#):
>
> I have tried to run the calls you've suggested **(with my URL)** but I get an error that the site cannot be reached.
Well that's interesting...
Ok, one more idea for you to try:
Can you set `logging.verbose: true` in your `kibana.yml`, restart Kibana, and login again?
If you could then provide the log file, we can try to diagnose this further.
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### Author:  [@Booooooo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Booooooo)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/5 "2020-01-10T13:55:13Z")
Hi @Larry_Gregory,
Sorry, I have mofified my post as I made a silly mistake. I have used curl this time and was able to retrieve the information I've posted now.
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Booooooo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Booooooo)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/6 "2020-01-10T14:00:18Z")
I think the most likely thing here is that the **kibana** user does not have the appropriate priviledges. But I am not sure how or where to modify that on the stack. Am I on the right track here?
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/7 "2020-01-10T14:05:12Z")
ah ha! You've run into a common "gotcha". The `kibana` user is intentionally not authorized to access Kibana itself. This user is one one you set in your `kibana.yml` for `elasticsearch.username`:
```auto
elasticsearch.username: kibana
elasticsearch.password: changeme
```
This account is what we call the "kibana system" user. We have an open issue to change this to make it clearer: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/25879](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/25879)
To actually login to kibana, you need to use an account with the appropriate privileges. Since you're just getting started, I'd recommend logging in with the built-in `elastic` superuser. Can you give that a try and let me know how you make out?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-on-kibana-after-enabling-security-features/214234/8 "2020-02-07T14:05:12Z")
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