Missing Search Guard tab in Kibana

[NetwarSystem]

I have a cluster with six data VMs and two master eligible systems that run Kibana. We’re on 6.8.4 and have been for a while.

Kibana machines have this:

openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 11.0.5+10-0ubuntu1.1~18.04

Data VMs have this:

openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 11.0.5+10-1~deb10u1

Earlier I ran into the missing Search Guard tab /w 6.5.4 - which was discussed here.

ELK 6.5.4 Search Guard 24.0 - missing Search Guard tab

Sorry to be very late to the game, but I might be able to add a bit more context. The Kibana plugin queries ES/SG on startup for a number of capabilities / active features (“systeminfo”), including the availability of the REST API and the installed license. Based on the response the SG navigation entry is either hidden or displayed. If the plugin cannot reach Elasticsearch or if the Search Guard fails to list the active modules, the nav link is hidden. The latter can happen when you run differe…

I dug around in Google Chrome, but I’m not a web dev type, so this is all a bit mysterious to me. I think I found the right place and I don’t see what Jochen suggested to look for:

The “systeminfo” JSON object is stored in the local storage of the browser and is fetched again when it is missing. So if this happens again the first thing you can check is the contents of the systeminfo in the local storage.

I restarted Kibana, then switched to a newly installed browser to log in, still no Search Guard tab. It’s not hurting operations, but I’m trying to teach some new people how to do these things, so kinda need to get it back.

[srgbnd]

We need to see your systeminfo. Open Chrome Dev Tools, click Application tab and select Session Storage from the left menu. Now you should see the systeminfo. Copy its value and paste it here on the forum.