I use since 1 year Searchguard Standard editions with
searchguard.enterprise_modules_enabled: false
to manage my ELK production cluster.
Since 2 days, the GUI Searchguard into Kibana has disappeared, but I still have my login page for me (admin user), for my collegues and for technical users (logstash…)
The config UI and the REST API that the UI is using have always been enterprise features.
If you set:
searchguard.enterprise_modules_enabled: false
this will disable the REST API, and also the config UI. I don’t what your setting is/was exactly, but as far as I see it, it was never possible to use the UI when enterprise features are disabled.
For the Community Edition, the recommended way to manage the SG config is to use the sgadmin CLI: