elasticsearch grafana with anonymous explore view

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  elasticsearch:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.8.0
    container_name: elasticsearch
    environment:
      - xpack.security.enabled=false #there is no password to access ES!!
      - xpack.security.enrollment.enabled=false
      - discovery.type=single-node
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
      nofile:
        soft: 65536
        hard: 65536
    cap_add:
      - IPC_LOCK
    volumes:
      - elasticsearch-data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    ports:
      - 9200:9200
      #- 9300:9300
    networks:
      - es_grafana_net
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:latest
    container_name: grafana
    environment:
      - GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER=research #grafana admin username
      - GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD__FILE=/run/secrets/grafana_password #grafana admin password comes from secrets file
      - GF_USERS_VIEWERS_CAN_EDIT=true #viewers can go into the explore view
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true #allow anonymous / without login
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_ROLE=Viewer #give anonymous viewer role
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_HIDE_VERSION=true #hide version
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_NAME=Main Org. #use default org
    volumes:
      - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    networks:
      - es_grafana_net
    secrets:
      - grafana_password

secrets:
  grafana_password:
    file: ./grafana_password.txt #grafana password should be in this file

volumes:
  elasticsearch-data:
  grafana-data:

networks:
  es_grafana_net:

notes.txt

create grafana_password.txt in the same folder as docker-compose and add password to it
docker compose up -d to run
in connections, new connection to ES should be made w/ ES url being http://elasticsearch:9200
ES wont have indices by default so those will need to be added before grafana shows anything useful


ES 9200 is not password protected!!