Sharing dashboards externally

[TomOgs]

Hey all.

I'm attempting to share dashboards from Kiabana on an external site.

Due to security issues with cookies, I was attempting to change the "xpack.security.sameSiteCookies" in the kibana.yml file to allow the data to be shared to an external site.

Being quite new to this and Docker setups, I couldn't locate the kibana.yml file to make the changes.

Sorry for the noob question, but could someone point me towards where the file is located on a standard installation.

Much appreciated.

[Ganesh-403]

@TomOgs
The kibana.yml file isn't typically edited directly on the host in a standard T-Pot installation because Kibana runs inside a Docker container and its configuration is managed by the container/compose setup rather than a native package installation. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

If your goal is to allow Kibana dashboards to be embedded on an external site by changing:

xpack.security.sameSiteCookies: None

you'll also need to set:

xpack.security.secureCookies: true

Elastic documents that SameSite=None requires secure cookies (HTTPS). Otherwise, modern browsers will reject the session cookie and embedding won't work. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

For a standard T-Pot installation, I'd recommend not editing files inside the running container, as those changes will be lost when the container is recreated.

Instead:

1. Stop T-Pot:

   systemctl stop tpot

2. Locate the Kibana service definition in the T-Pot Docker Compose configuration (/opt/tpot/etc/tpot.yml on older releases, or ~/tpotce/docker-compose.yml on newer releases). :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

3. Mount a custom kibana.yml into the Kibana container (or add the equivalent environment/configuration if supported by your T-Pot version).

4. Restart T-Pot:

   systemctl start tpot

One question:

• Which T-Pot version are you using (20.06.x, 22.04.x, or a newer tpotce release)?

The configuration layout changed significantly between the older /opt/tpot releases and the current ~/tpotce Docker Compose deployment, so the exact location to customize Kibana depends on your version.

If this solves your problem, feel free to mark it as the accepted answer so others can find it easily.