# User authentication for kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-for-kibana/165328>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-for-kibana/165328 "2019-01-23T04:11:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yazhini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e19adc/32.png) [@yazhini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yazhini)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-for-kibana/165328/1 "2019-01-23T04:11:28Z")

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Is user authentication setup for kibana free? if So, can anybody with the setup procedure?

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-for-kibana/165328/2 "2019-01-23T05:02:09Z")

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User authentication for the Elastic Stack is included with our [Gold subscription](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) (and above) for local installs, or with any of our [Cloud plans](https://cloud.elastic.co/).

You can get a 30 day free trial for a local install, or a 14 day free trial of cloud.

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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:** [February 20, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-authentication-for-kibana/165328/3 "2019-02-20T05:02:17Z")

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