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Security privileges

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Security privileges

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This section lists the privileges that you can assign to a role.

Cluster privileges

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`all`	All cluster administration operations, like snapshotting, node shutdown/restart, settings update, rerouting, or managing users and roles.
`cancel_task`	Privileges to cancel tasks and delete async searches. See delete async search API for more informations.
`create_snapshot`	Privileges to create snapshots for existing repositories. Can also list and view details on existing repositories and snapshots.
`grant_api_key`	Privileges to create Elasticsearch API keys on behalf of other users.
`manage`	Builds on `monitor` and adds cluster operations that change values in the cluster. This includes snapshotting, updating settings, and rerouting. It also includes obtaining snapshot and restore status. This privilege does not include the ability to manage security.
`manage_api_key`	All security-related operations on Elasticsearch API keys including creating new API keys, retrieving information about API keys, and invalidating API keys. When you create new API keys, they will always be owned by the authenticated user. When you have this privilege, you can invalidate your own API keys and those owned by other users.
`manage_ccr`	All cross-cluster replication operations related to managing follower indices and auto-follow patterns. It also includes the authority to grant the privileges necessary to manage follower indices and auto-follow patterns. This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain follower indices.
`manage_ilm`	All index lifecycle management operations related to managing policies.
`manage_index_templates`	All operations on index templates.
`manage_ingest_pipelines`	All operations on ingest pipelines.
`manage_logstash_pipelines`	All operations on logstash pipelines.
`manage_ml`	All machine learning operations, such as creating and deleting datafeeds, jobs, and model snapshots. Datafeeds that were created prior to version 6.2 or created when security features were disabled run as a system user with elevated privileges, including permission to read all indices. Newer datafeeds run with the security roles of the user who created or updated them.
`manage_own_api_key`	All security-related operations on Elasticsearch API keys that are owned by the current authenticated user. The operations include creating new API keys, retrieving information about API keys, and invalidating API keys.
`manage_pipeline`	All operations on ingest pipelines.
`manage_rollup`	All rollup operations, including creating, starting, stopping and deleting rollup jobs.
`manage_saml`	Enables the use of internal Elasticsearch APIs to initiate and manage SAML authentication on behalf of other users.
`manage_security`	All security-related operations such as CRUD operations on users and roles and cache clearing.
`manage_service_account`	All security-related operations on Elasticsearch service accounts including Get service accounts, Create service account tokens, Delete service account token, and Get service account credentials.
`manage_slm`	All snapshot lifecycle management (SLM) actions, including creating and updating policies and starting and stopping SLM.
`manage_token`	All security-related operations on tokens that are generated by the Elasticsearch Token Service.
`manage_transform`	All operations related to managing transforms.
`manage_watcher`	All watcher operations, such as putting watches, executing, activate or acknowledging. Watches that were created prior to version 6.1 or created when the security features were disabled run as a system user with elevated privileges, including permission to read and write all indices. Newer watches run with the security roles of the user who created or updated them.
`monitor`	All cluster read-only operations, like cluster health and state, hot threads, node info, node and cluster stats, and pending cluster tasks.
`monitor_ml`	All read-only machine learning operations, such as getting information about datafeeds, jobs, model snapshots, or results.
`monitor_rollup`	All read-only rollup operations, such as viewing the list of historical and currently running rollup jobs and their capabilities.
`monitor_snapshot`	Privileges to list and view details on existing repositories and snapshots.
`monitor_text_structure`	All read-only operations related to the find structure API.
`monitor_transform`	All read-only operations related to transforms.
`monitor_watcher`	All read-only watcher operations, such as getting a watch and watcher stats.
`read_ccr`	All read-only cross-cluster replication operations, such as getting information about indices and metadata for leader indices in the cluster. It also includes the authority to check whether users have the appropriate privileges to follow leader indices. This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain leader indices.
`read_ilm`	All read-only index lifecycle management operations, such as getting policies and checking the status of index lifecycle management
`read_pipeline`	Read-only access to ingest pipline (get, simulate).
`read_slm`	All read-only SLM actions, such as getting policies and checking the SLM status.
`transport_client`	All privileges necessary for a transport client to connect. Required by the remote cluster to enable Cross Cluster Search.

Indices privileges

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`all`	Any action on an index or data stream.
`auto_configure`	Permits auto-creation of indices and data streams. An auto-create action is the result of an index or bulk request that targets a non-existent index or data stream rather than an explicit create index or create data stream request. Also permits auto-update of mappings on indices and data streams if they do not contradict existing mappings. An auto-update mapping action is the result of an index or bulk request on an index or data stream that contains new fields that may be mapped rather than an explicit update mapping request.
`create`	Privilege to index documents, allowing overwriting any existing document, but not permitting updating one. [7.9] Deprecated in 7.9. Also grants the permission to update the index mapping (but not the data stream mapping), using the update mapping action, or relying on dynamic mappings. In the next major release, this privilege will not grant any mapping update permission. This privilege does not restrict the index operation to the creation of documents but instead restricts API use to the index API. The index API allows a user to overwrite a previously indexed document. See the `create_doc` privilege for an alternative.
`create_doc`	Privilege to index new documents, without allowing overwriting or updating existing ones. [7.9] Deprecated in 7.9. Also grants the permission to update the index mapping (but not the data stream mapping), using the update mapping action, or relying on dynamic mappings. In the next major release, this privilege will not grant any mapping update permission. This privilege relies on the `op_type` of indexing requests (Index and Bulk). When ingesting documents as a user who has the `create_doc` privilege (and no higher privilege such as `index` or `write`), you must ensure that op_type is set to create through one of the following: Explicitly setting the `op_type` in the index or bulk APIs Using the `_create` endpoint for the index API Creating a document with an auto-generated `_id`
`create_index`	Privilege to create an index or data stream. A create index request may contain aliases to be added to the index once created. In that case the request requires the `manage` privilege as well, on both the index and the aliases names.
`delete`	Privilege to delete documents.
`delete_index`	Privilege to delete an index or data stream.
`index`	Privilege to index (overwriting included) and update documents. [7.9] Deprecated in 7.9. Also grants the permission to update the index mapping (but not the data stream mapping), using the update mapping action, or relying on dynamic mappings. In the next major release, this privilege will not grant any mapping update permission.
`maintenance`	Permits refresh, flush, synced flush and force merge index administration operations. No privilege to read or write index data or otherwise manage the index.
`manage`	All `monitor` privileges plus index and data stream administration (aliases, analyze, cache clear, close, delete, exists, flush, mapping, open, field capabilities, force merge, refresh, settings, search shards, validate query).
`manage_follow_index`	All actions that are required to manage the lifecycle of a follower index, which includes creating a follower index, closing it, and converting it to a regular index. This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain follower indices.
`manage_ilm`	All index lifecycle management operations relating to managing the execution of policies of an index or data stream. This includes operations such as retrying policies and removing a policy from an index or data stream.
`manage_leader_index`	All actions that are required to manage the lifecycle of a leader index, which includes forgetting a follower. This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain leader indices.
`monitor`	All actions that are required for monitoring (recovery, segments info, index stats and status).
`read`	Read-only access to actions (count, explain, get, mget, get indexed scripts, more like this, multi percolate/search/termvector, percolate, scroll, clear_scroll, search, suggest, tv).
`read_cross_cluster`	Read-only access to the search action from a remote cluster.
`view_index_metadata`	Read-only access to index and data stream metadata (aliases, exists, field capabilities, field mappings, get index, get data stream, ilm explain, mappings, search shards, settings, validate query). This privilege is available for use primarily by Kibana users.
`write`	Privilege to perform all write operations to documents, which includes the permission to index, update, and delete documents as well as performing bulk operations, and allows the dynamic mapping updates as a result of these. [7.9] Deprecated in 7.9. Until the next major release, this also grants access to the update mapping action, but only on indices, not on data streams.

Run as privilege

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The run_as permission enables an authenticated user to submit requests on behalf of another user. The value can be a user name or a comma-separated list of user names. (You can also specify users as an array of strings or a YAML sequence.) For more information, see Submitting Requests on Behalf of Other Users.

Application privileges

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Application privileges are managed within Elasticsearch and can be retrieved with the has privileges API and the get application privileges API. They do not, however, grant access to any actions or resources within Elasticsearch. Their purpose is to enable applications to represent and store their own privilege models within Elasticsearch roles.

To create application privileges, use the add application privileges API. You can then associate these application privileges with roles, as described in Defining roles.

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