How to set authentication in kibana

Question

Is it possible to enable authentication in Kibana in order to restrict access to a dashboard to only be accessible to particular users?

Answer 1

I have achieved authentication by installing haproxy.

1. Restrict kibana locally

$sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

server.host: "localhost"

2.Install haproxy in same machine where kibana installed

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install haproxy

$ sudo nano /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

global
log /dev/log    local0
log /dev/log    local1 notice
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin
stats timeout 30s
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
# Default SSL material locations
ca-base /etc/ssl/certs
crt-base /etc/ssl/private

# Default ciphers to use on SSL-enabled listening sockets.
# For more information, see ciphers(1SSL). This list is from:
#  https://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers-ssl-ciphers/
ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS
ssl-default-bind-options no-sslv3

defaults
log global
mode    http
option  httplog
option  dontlognull
    timeout connect 10m
    timeout client  10m
    timeout server  10m
errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http
errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http
errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http
errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http
errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http
errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http
errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http

userlist UsersFor_Kibana
    user kibana insecure-password myPASSWORD

frontend localnodes
     bind *:80 
     mode http
     default_backend nodes

backend nodes 
   acl AuthOkay_Kibana http_auth(UsersFor_Kibana) 
   http-request auth realm Kibana if !AuthOkay_Kibana
   mode http
   balance roundrobin
   option forwardfor
   http-request set-header X-Forwarded-Port %[dst_port]
   http-request add-header X-Forwarded-Proto https if { ssl_fc }
   option httpchk HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:localhost
   server server1 127.0.0.1:5601 check

username :-"kibana" password :- "myPASSWORD"

When you browse http://IP:80 one pop-up ll come for authentication.