The Practical Benefits of a Unified Elasticsearch and Kibana Installation
Benefits of a Unified Elasticsearch & Kibana Setup from a Businesses standpoint
Did you know ReadonlyREST interoperates perfectly with Elastic Cloud?
Read through to know more 🙂
ReadonlyREST in a nutshell 🥜
Need a refresher about ReadonlyREST?
ReadonlyREST is a battle-tested plugin for Elasticsearch and Kibana hat provides advanced security and access control features. It includes basic features, as well as enterprise-level features like multi-tenancy, advanced LDAP authentication, SAML SSO, OIDC authentication, and offsite auditing log shipping.
🤓 From the most basic use cases:
- Making Elasticsearch a read-only
- Basic authentication
- IP/Network filtering
🏦 To battle tested, enterprise use cases:
- Advanced LDAP auth
After 5 years at the service of Elasticsearch and Kibana security the product is a reference in the industry and ready to take on new challenges.
ROR + Elastic Cloud: Why?
Elastic cloud in its basic tier is reasonably cheap, offers high performance and stability. Updates are seamless, and data is free to grow indefinitely. Unfortunately adding enterprise-grade security sky-rockets the running costs
Adopting ROR instead of paying for the platinum tier of Elastic cloud is cheaper, permits more advanced integrations, but most importantly: offers multi-tenancy over a single cluster.
Maintenance & scaling | Flexible access control | Pricing | |
Elastic Cloud | 😃 | 😐 | 😭 |
Self hosted + ROR | 🤯 | 😍 | 😍 |
What if we could have the best of both worlds?
It’s finally possible!
- 🏦 Keep all your data in Elastic Cloud basic tier (no expensive platinum tier required!)
- 👀 Access the data as cross-cluster-search using a tiny Kibana+ROR instance with advanced authentication
How does it work?
All your data is safely kept in Elastic Cloud basic tier, but your users will access it through a minimal ReadonlyREST instance, where you can configure the usual advanced authentication, multi-tenancy and access control.
Is this integration secure and robust?
Yes, very much so. No hacks involved. Thanks to two amazing features of Elastic Cloud.
- 🤝 "Trusted deployments": self hosted clusters (i.e. with ROR installed) can securely connect to your fully managed Elastic Cloud
- 🫰“Cross Cluster Search (CCS)”: Users are authorized in the data-less ROR-secured cluster, and access the data in the remote Elastic Cloud cluster.
Take a look at the Elastic Cloud interoperability guide in our documentation website.
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