# Q: Does kibana support users authentification for the free version?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/q-does-kibana-support-users-authentification-for-the-free-version/250058
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [September 26, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/q-does-kibana-support-users-authentification-for-the-free-version/250058 "2020-09-26T13:22:40Z")
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### Author: ![0xrduf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/51bf81/32.png) [@0xrduf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/0xrduf)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/q-does-kibana-support-users-authentification-for-the-free-version/250058/1 "2020-09-26T13:22:40Z")

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Q: does kibana support users authentification for the free version ??

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### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/q-does-kibana-support-users-authentification-for-the-free-version/250058/2 "2020-09-26T14:56:00Z")

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Yes Basic Security is now part of the Basic License which is Free to Use.

> **[Security for Elasticsearch is now free](https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-now-free)**
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> We are thrilled to announce that the core security features of the Elastic Stack -- like TLS encryption, RBAC, and both file and native authentication -- are now free.

- TLS for encrypted communications
- File and native realm for creating and managing users
- Role-based access control for controlling user access to cluster APIs and indexes; also allows multi-tenancy for Kibana with security for Kibana Spaces

> **[Security | Kibana Guide \[7.9\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/xpack-security.html)**

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/q-does-kibana-support-users-authentification-for-the-free-version/250058/3 "2020-10-24T14:56:15Z")

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