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Grant privileges and roles needed for setup

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Grant privileges and roles needed for setup

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Setting up Winlogbeat is an admin-level task that requires extra privileges. As a best practice, grant the setup role to administrators only, and use a more restrictive role for event publishing.

Administrators who set up Winlogbeat typically need to load mappings, dashboards, and other objects used to index data into Elasticsearch and visualize it in Kibana.

To grant users the required privileges:

  1. Create a setup role, called something like winlogbeat_setup, that has the following privileges:

    Type Privilege Purpose

    Cluster

    monitor

    Retrieve cluster details (e.g. version)

    Cluster

    manage_ilm

    Set up and manage index lifecycle management (ILM) policy

    Index

    manage on winlogbeat-* indices

    Set up aliases used by ILM

    Omit any privileges that aren’t relevant in your environment.

    These instructions assume that you are using the default name for Winlogbeat indices. If you are using a custom name, modify the privileges to match your index naming pattern.

  2. Assign the setup role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to set up Winlogbeat:

    Role Purpose

    kibana_admin

    Load dependencies, such as example dashboards, if available, into Kibana

    ingest_admin

    Set up index templates and, if available, ingest pipelines

    Omit any roles that aren’t relevant in your environment.

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