Grant privileges and roles needed to read Filebeat data from Kibana

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Grant privileges and roles needed to read Filebeat data from Kibana

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Kibana users typically need to view dashboards and visualizations that contain Filebeat data. These users might also need to create and edit dashboards and visualizations. If you’re using Beats central management, some of these users might need to create and manage configurations.

To grant users the required privileges:

  1. Create a reader role, called something like filebeat_reader, that has the following privilege:

    Type Privilege Purpose

    Index

    read on filebeat-* indices

    Read data indexed by Filebeat

    Spaces

    Read or All on Dashboards, Visualize, and Discover

    Allow the user to view, edit, and create dashboards, as well as browse data.

    Spaces

    Read or All on Kibana Logs

    Allow the use of Kibana Logs

  2. Assign the reader role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to read Filebeat data:

    Role Purpose

    monitoring_user

    Allow users to monitor the health of Filebeat itself. Only assign this role to users who manage Filebeat.

    beats_admin

    Create and manage configurations in Beats central management. Only assign this role to users who need to use Beats central management. +