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Grant privileges and roles needed for monitoring

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Grant privileges and roles needed for monitoring

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Elasticsearch security features provides built-in users and roles for monitoring. The privileges and roles needed depend on the method used to collect monitoring data.

Important note for Elastic Cloud users

Built-in users are not available when running our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud. To send monitoring data securely, create a monitoring user and grant it the roles described in the following sections.

  • If you’re using internal collection to collect metrics about Functionbeat, Elasticsearch security features provides the beats_system built-in user and beats_system built-in role to send monitoring information. You can use the built-in user, if it’s available in your environment, or create a user who has the privileges needed to send monitoring information.

    If you use the beats_system user, make sure you set the password.

    If you don’t use the beats_system user:

    1. Create a monitoring role, called something like functionbeat_monitoring, that has the following privileges:

      Type Privilege Purpose

      Cluster

      monitor

      Retrieve cluster details (e.g. version)

      Index

      create_index on .monitoring-beats-* indices

      Create monitoring indices in Elasticsearch

      Index

      create_doc on .monitoring-beats-* indices

      Write monitoring events into Elasticsearch

    2. Assign the monitoring role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to monitor Functionbeat:

      Role Purpose

      kibana_admin

      Use Kibana

      monitoring_user

      Use Stack Monitoring in Kibana to monitor Functionbeat
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