Hi, How do I apply ssl/https secure communications on elastic cloud? I have a Kibana instance running on a EC2 instance connecting to a elastic instance in the elastic cloud. kibana.yml on the EC2 instance: elasticsearch.url: " https://mycloudid.found.io:9243 " elasticsearch.username: "elastic" …

If you are using a HTTPS url then it's using SSL/TLS. Or is that not what you want?

That should be what you want, although we discourage the use of the elastic user within Kibana. That use can do everything on your cluster, so if there's some sort of security hole in Kibana, or your config file gets leaked then you are giving away the credentials for a user than can modifiy/delete …

No that is exactly what I want. I just don't remember it being that easy. Last time I used xpack was under 5.4 and I remember having to do a lot more to get https working. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly. @TimV What are the minimum permissions the user configured in kibana.yml needs for Kibana …

In a standard install, the kibana user (which has the kibana_system) role is the user you should use for kibana's elasticsearch.username setting. For cloud, it's probably easiest to create your own user, and just assign them the kibana_system role. That will give you exactly the permissions you nee…

[image] Sjaak01: I have a Kibana instance running on a EC2 instance connecting to a elastic instance in the elastic cloud. But I don't understand. Why do you want to do this? Elastic cloud has also Kibana built in.

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