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Securing the Reporting Endpointsedit

In a production environment, you should restrict access to the X-Pack reporting endpoints to authorized users. This requires that you:

  1. Enable X-Pack security on your Elasticsearch cluster.
  2. Configure an SSL certificate for Kibana.

  3. Configure Watcher to trust the Kibana server’s certificate by adding it to the Watcher truststore on each node:

    1. Import the Kibana server certificate into the Watcher truststore using Java Keytool:

      keytool -importcert -keystore watcher-truststore.jks -file server.crt

      If the truststore doesn’t already exist, it is created.

    2. Make sure the xpack.http.ssl.truststore.path setting in elasticsearch.yml specifies the location of the Watcher truststore.
  4. Add one or more users who have the permissions necessary to use Kibana and X-Pack reporting.

Once you’ve enabled SSL for Kibana, all requests to the X-Pack reporting endpoints must include valid credentials. For example, the following watch submits requests as the built-in elastic user:

For example, the following watch generates a report that contains the Error Monitoring dashboard and emails the report every hour:

PUT _xpack/watcher/watch/error_report
{
  "trigger" : {
    "schedule": {
      "interval": "1h"
    }
  },
  "actions" : {
    "email_admin" : { 
      "email": {
        "to": "'Recipient Name <recipient@example.com>'",
        "subject": "Error Monitoring Report",
        "attachments" : {
          "error_report.pdf" : {
            "reporting" : {
              "url": "http://0.0.0.0:5601/api/reporting/generate/dashboard/Error-Monitoring?_g=(time:(from:now-1d%2Fd,mode:quick,to:now))", 
              "retries":6, 
              "interval":"1s", 
              "auth":{ 
                "basic":{
                  "username":"elastic",
                  "password":"changeme"
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You must configure at least one email account to enable Watcher to send email.

This is an example Generation URL. You can copy and paste the URL for any report from the Kibana UI.

Optional, default is 40

Optional, default is 15s

Provide user credentials for a user with permission to access Kibana and X-Pack reporting.

For more information about configuring watches, see How Watcher Work.

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