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I installed Shield in my Elastic Search cluster and configured Kibana to work with it as described: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/kibana.html No I restart Kibana and get this error:

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2016-02-15T19:58:22+00:00","tags":["fatal"],"pid":28422,"level":"fatal","message":"HTTPS is required. Please set server.ssl.key and server.ssl.cert in kiban$ FATAL { [Error: HTTPS is required. Please set server.ssl.key and server.ssl.cert in kibana.yml.] cause: [Error: HTTPS is required. Please set server.ssl.key and server.ssl.cert in kibana.yml.],
isOperational: true }

Tutorial above doesn't state that HTTP is mandatory for Kibana to work with Shield but the error does. Any idea whether I can still use Shield with Kibana without setting up SSL?

Andrey
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Unfortunately this is the case in the currently release of Kibana (4.4). In installedPlugins/shield/index.js:38:13 one can conclude that there is no way to get around using HTTPS when this plugin is enabled. If you simply skip the step by removing the Shield plugin for Kibana with bin/kibana plugin --remove shield, Kibana will be usable again with browser authentication, but this is NOT for production purposes IMO.

Loek van Gool
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add this in in kibana.yml, but only do it if you have SSL configured in some other way, eg a load balancer with SSL termination

shield.skipSslCheck: true
Risto
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