Security APIs

To use the security APIs, you must set xpack.security.enabled to true in the elasticsearch.yml file.

You can use the following APIs to perform security activities.

You can use the following APIs to add, update, retrieve, and remove application privileges:

You can use the following APIs to add, remove, update, and retrieve role mappings:

You can use the following APIs to add, remove, update, and retrieve roles in the native realm:

You can use the following APIs to create and invalidate bearer tokens for access without requiring basic authentication:

You can use the following APIs to create, retrieve and invalidate API keys for access without requiring basic authentication:

You can use the following APIs to add, remove, update, or retrieve users in the native realm:

You can use the following APIs to list service accounts and manage the service tokens:

You can use the following APIs to authenticate users against an OpenID Connect authentication realm when using a custom web application other than Kibana

You can use the following APIs to authenticate users against a SAML authentication realm when using a custom web application other than Kibana