With this tip, kibana can't be modified. So you can share the uri to anyone on the internet. It's a network method to protect kibana from changes of anonymous.
- You need to have a working kibana exposed over http on internet
- On the same elasticsearch server, install nginx :
apt-get install nginx - In the directory
/etc/nginx/sites-available, create a new file and edit it, for example :vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/kibana-readonly - Write the following configuration :