Grant privileges and roles needed for publishing
editGrant privileges and roles needed for publishing
editUsers who publish events to Elasticsearch need to create and write to Filebeat indices. To minimize the privileges required by the writer role, use the setup role to pre-load dependencies. This section assumes that you’ve run the setup.
When using ILM, turn off the ILM setup check in the Filebeat config file before running Filebeat to publish events:
setup.ilm.check_exists: false
To grant the required privileges:
-
Create a writer role, called something like
filebeat_writer
, that has the following privileges:The
monitor
cluster privilege and thecreate_doc
privilege onfilebeat-*
indices are required in every configuration.Type Privilege Purpose Cluster
monitor
Retrieve cluster details (e.g. version)
Cluster
read_ilm
Read the ILM policy when connecting to clusters that support ILM. Not needed when
setup.ilm.check_exists
isfalse
.Cluster
cluster:admin/ingest/pipeline/get
Check for ingest pipelines used by modules. Needed when using modules.
Index
create_doc
onfilebeat-*
indicesWrite events into Elasticsearch
Index
view_index_metadata
onfilebeat-*
indicesCheck for alias when connecting to clusters that support ILM. Not needed when
setup.ilm.check_exists
isfalse
.Index
create_index
onfilebeat-*
indicesCreate daily indices when connecting to clusters that do not support ILM. Not needed when using ILM.
Omit any privileges that aren’t relevant in your environment.
- Assign the writer role to users who will index events into Elasticsearch.