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Elastic Cloud: Issue with Kibana authentication flow
A major Kibana authentication outage affected Deployments and Projects: the "Log in with Elastic Cloud" button failed. It started at 2026-06-16 10:57 UTC and was resolved at 2026-06-16 11:36 UTC, lasting 38 min. Customers could use the Kibana link inside the Elastic Cloud console as a workaround; Elastic reported identifying the root cause and mitigating the issue.
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Affected components: Global services - Cloud console
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We have detected an issue with the Kibana authentication flow for both Deployments and Projects. Authenticating to Kibana using the "Log in with Elastic Cloud" button results in an authentication failure. A workaround is to access Kibana using the link inside the Elastic Cloud console. We are currently working on a resolution. Our team is currently identifying the root cause to resolve the issue. We will share another update in the next hour.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved
We have identified the root cause and mitigated the issue. Users should now be able to log in to Kibana via the "Log in with Elastic Cloud" button.
Rewindex changes for this incident
- Major incident: Issue with Kibana authentication flow 2026-06-16 10:57 UTC
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