Search is no longer just a box on a website. In many deployments, Manticore Search behaves more like an internal data service: applications query it, ingest workers update its tables, dashboards read from it, and operators change schemas. When all of that relies only on network-level trust, the access-control story gets weak quickly.
That is why Manticore Search now has built-in authentication and authorization. Introduced in the 27.x release line and published in the 27.1.5 release post, it lets Manticore check who is connecting and what that user is allowed to do.
The feature works across SQL, HTTP/HTTPS clients, distributed remote agents, and replication-related operations.
What Manticore adds
Manticore now supports authentication and authorization for the core access paths:
