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Filebeat features that require authorization

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Filebeat features that require authorization

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After securing Filebeat, make sure your users have the roles (or associated privileges) required to use these Filebeat features. Note that some of the roles shown here are built-in, and some are user-defined.

Feature	Role
Send data to a secured cluster	`filebeat_writer` ^[1]
Run Filebeat modules	`filebeat_writer` ^[1]
Load index templates	`filebeat_writer` ^[1] and `kibana_user`
Load Filebeat dashboards into Kibana	`filebeat_writer` ^[1] and `kibana_user`
Load machine learning jobs	`machine_learning_admin`
Read indices created by Filebeat	`filebeat_reader` ^[1]
View Filebeat dashboards in Kibana	`kibana_user`
Store and manage configurations in a central location in Kibana	`beats_admin`
Load index lifecycle policies and use index lifecycle management	`filebeat_ilm` ^[1]

To create the user-defined roles shown here, see Configure authentication credentials and Grant users access to Filebeat indices. You may want to define additional roles to provide more restrictive access.

^[1] These roles are user-defined.

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