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@eedugon eedugon commented Oct 7, 2025

This PR describes that the Stack 9.2 supports IPv6 addresses when configuring a remote cluster within Kibana.

I don't want to highlight that much in our docs, as it doesn't feel necessary (we didn't even mention that we supported IPv4 at all, neither that IPv6 wasn't supported by Kibana (it was supported by Elasticsearch)).

Extra improvements:

  • The ECE -> self-managed and ECH -> self-managed docs have been improved and converted to snippets.
  • Also the Kibana specific steps have been improved to match the reality.

Not updated (out of the scope of this PR)

  • The steps for the self-managed docs haven't been improved because we will be rewriting them soon in a different PR.
  • For all other remote clusters use cases, the Kibana UI fixes will come in another PR. This one contains only the changes related with the IPv6 support. I already have a second snippet ready to be used by 6 other docs.

Closes #3093

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eedugon commented Oct 7, 2025

Added extra fixes, as the "Elasticsearch API method" of both ECE -> self-managed and ECH -> self-managed docs were incorrect!
I've merged both to a snippet and fixed the incorrect statements.

* **API keys**: Use the port configured in the remote cluster interface of the remote cluster (defaults to `9443`).
* **TLS Certificates**: Use the {{es}} transport port (defaults to `9300`).

When using an IPv6 address ({applies_to}`stack: ga 9.2`), enclose it in square brackets followed by the port number. For example: `[2001:db8::1]:9443`.
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When using an IPv6 address ({applies_to}`stack: ga 9.2`), enclose it in square brackets followed by the port number. For example: `[2001:db8::1]:9443`.
When using an IPv6 address, enclose it in square brackets followed by the port number. For example: `[2001:db8::1]:9443`.

I don't think we need to repeat the applies to here

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[Kibana] IPv6 support for remote clusters
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