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Grant privileges and roles needed to read Journalbeat data from Kibana

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Grant privileges and roles needed to read Journalbeat data from Kibana

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Kibana users typically need to view dashboards and visualizations that contain Journalbeat data. These users might also need to create and edit dashboards and visualizations.

To grant users the required privileges:

Create a reader role, called something like journalbeat_reader, that has the following privilege:

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Index	`read` on `journalbeat-*` indices	Read data indexed by Journalbeat
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

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

Role Purpose

monitoring_user

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

Role	Purpose
`monitoring_user`	Allow users to monitor the health of Journalbeat itself. Only assign this role to users who manage Journalbeat.

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