Performance
You can configure Siren Investigate to perform faster.
Avoiding extra pre-authentication for requests routed through the Elasticsearch proxy
Investigate enables routes like /elasticsearch to proxy to the Elasticsearch instance. By default, these routes are protected with additional authentication, meaning each request is pre-authenticated before being forwarded to Elasticsearch.
When using basic authentication, you can disable this extra security layer by setting the following configuration in investigate.yml:
investigate_access_control.disableExtraEsProxyAuth: true (default false)|
Enable this setting on a network with higher than usual latency. This significantly speeds up each request going through the proxy. |
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Each proxied request already includes an authorization header. If access is denied, Elasticsearch will respond with a 403 Forbidden error. |