XPack documentation updates
Original comment by @jakelandis:
Basic Auth Documentation:
LINK REDACTED It appears that this was removed for 6.x. However, the information here is still relevant and needed.
EDIT: ^^ nvmd -> I see it just moved: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/master/ls-security.html
Has any thought been given to use the Kibana UI instead of making HTTP calls? (The UI is slick, and the current documentation does not call out how set the HTTP basic auth to make the HTTP calls, which could be quite confusing for a newbie)
XPack configuration doc
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/master/settings-xpack.html
Can we explicitly call out that the following username and password is for the system only and other usages, such as the elasticsearch output needs to follow the above referenced instructions to create the correct user
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username and xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.password
This is major nit-pick...but can we change
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username and xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.password
to
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.password
Also, while reviewing, I was fairly confused by Monitoring vs. Configuration Management Settings. Are there any subsequent pages that can be linked to/from to better understand what is Monitoring and what is Configuration Management ?
cc @dedemorton @robbavey @jordansissel