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Troubleshoot a nodes info API response

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

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Symptoms:

  • When you use the nodes info API to retrieve settings for a node, some information is missing.

Resolution:

This is intentional. Some of the settings are considered to be highly sensitive: all ssl settings, ldap bind_dn, and bind_password. For this reason, we filter these settings and do not expose them via the nodes info API rest endpoint. You can also define additional sensitive settings that should be hidden using the xpack.security.hide_settings setting. For example, this snippet hides the url settings of the ldap1 realm and all settings of the ad1 realm.

YAML 
xpack.security.hide_settings: xpack.security.authc.realms.ldap1.url,
xpack.security.authc.realms.ad1.*