The default Elastic Stack comes with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. We can extend the Elastic Stack setup by installing X-Pack. It has different features, such as providing security, monitoring, reporting, alerting, and graph and machine learning capabilities in an easy-to-install package. By default, there is no security in Elastic Stack, and through X-Pack, we can enable authentication and define roles and permissions. It monitors the Elastic Stack and provides us with the feature to monitor the application's health seamlessly. Also, we can easily generate PDF reports, using Kibana visualization, after installing X-Pack. We can seamlessly integrate X-Pack in a running Elastic Stack setup by a simple installation process. The X-Pack security feature provides us with the option to secure Elastic Stack. Using it, we can set password protection, add authentication, filter on IP, or encrypt communications.

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