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Get service accounts API

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Get service accounts API

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Retrieves information about service accounts.

Currently, only the elastic/fleet-server service account is available.

Request

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GET /_security/service

GET /_security/service/<namespace>

GET /_security/service/<namespace>/<service>

Prerequisites

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To use this API, you must have at least the manage_service_account cluster privilege.

Description

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This API returns a list of service accounts that match the provided path parameter(s).

Path parameters

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namespace: (Optional, string) Name of the namespace. Omit this parameter to retrieve information about all service accounts. If you omit this parameter, you must also omit the service parameter.
service: (Optional, string) Name of the service name. Omit this parameter to retrieve information about all service accounts that belong to the specified namespace.

Response body

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A successful call returns a JSON object of service accounts. The API returns an empty object if no service account is found.

Examples

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To following request retrieves a service account for the elastic/fleet-server service account:

resp = client.security.get_service_accounts(
    namespace="elastic",
    service="fleet-server",
)
print(resp)

const response = await client.security.getServiceAccounts({
  namespace: "elastic",
  service: "fleet-server",
});
console.log(response);

GET /_security/service/elastic/fleet-server

{
  "elastic/fleet-server": {
    "role_descriptor": {
      "cluster": [
        "monitor",
        "manage_own_api_key",
        "read_fleet_secrets"
      ],
      "indices": [
        {
          "names": [
            "logs-*",
            "metrics-*",
            "traces-*",
            ".logs-endpoint.diagnostic.collection-*",
            ".logs-endpoint.action.responses-*",
            ".logs-endpoint.heartbeat-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "write",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "profiling-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "traces-apm.sampled-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "monitor",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-secrets*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-actions*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-agents*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-artifacts*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-enrollment-api-keys*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-policies*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-policies-leader*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-servers*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-fileds*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "synthetics-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        }
      ],
      "applications": [
        {
          "application": "kibana-*",
          "privileges": [
            "reserved_fleet-setup"
          ],
          "resources": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "run_as": [],
      "metadata": {},
      "transient_metadata": {
        "enabled": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Omit the namespace and service to retrieve all service accounts:

resp = client.security.get_service_accounts()
print(resp)

const response = await client.security.getServiceAccounts();
console.log(response);

GET /_security/service

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