This functionality is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a future release. Elastic will take a best effort approach to fix any issues, but experimental features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

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Journalbeat features that require authorization

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Journalbeat features that require authorization

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After securing Journalbeat, make sure your users have the roles (or associated privileges) required to use these Journalbeat 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

journalbeat_writer [1]

Load index templates

journalbeat_writer [1] and kibana_user

Load Journalbeat dashboards into Kibana

journalbeat_writer [1] and kibana_user

Read indices created by Journalbeat

journalbeat_reader [1]

View Journalbeat dashboards in Kibana

kibana_user

Load index lifecycle policies and use index lifecycle management

journalbeat_ilm [1]

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

[1] These roles are user-defined.
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