# Problem shield - kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-shield-kibana/40954>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [February 4, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-shield-kibana/40954 "2016-02-04T11:58:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-shield-kibana/40954/4 "2016-02-05T12:38:42Z")

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It looks like our documentation is missing an important piece; The shield Kibana plugin requires SSL to be enabled, otherwise it will not work.

I will open an issue so that we can get this clarified in the documentation.

Edit: Please see step 5 on the page linked above for how to enable it.

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