- Elasticsearch Guide: other versions:
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analyzer
coerce
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ignore_above
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index
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- ILM: Manage the index lifecycle
- Tutorial: Customize built-in policies
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- Monitor a cluster
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- User authorization
- Built-in roles
- Defining roles
- Role restriction
- Security privileges
- Document level security
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- Configuring authorization delegation
- Customizing roles and authorization
- Enable audit logging
- Restricting connections with IP filtering
- Securing clients and integrations
- Operator privileges
- Troubleshooting
- Some settings are not returned via the nodes settings API
- Authorization exceptions
- Users command fails due to extra arguments
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- Certificate verification fails for curl on Mac
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- Limitations
- Set up a cluster for high availability
- Optimizations
- Autoscaling
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- Data store architecture
- REST APIs
- API conventions
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- REST API compatibility
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- Behavioral Analytics APIs
- Compact and aligned text (CAT) APIs
- cat aliases
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- cat component templates
- cat count
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- Cluster APIs
- Cluster allocation explain
- Cluster get settings
- Cluster health
- Health
- Cluster reroute
- Cluster state
- Cluster stats
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- Create connector
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- Update connector filtering
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- Data stream APIs
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- Index APIs
- Alias exists
- Aliases
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- Delete component template
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- Delete alias
- Delete index
- Delete index template
- Delete index template (legacy)
- Exists
- Field usage stats
- Flush
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- Get alias
- Get component template
- Get field mapping
- Get index
- Get index settings
- Get index template
- Get index template (legacy)
- Get mapping
- Import dangling index
- Index recovery
- Index segments
- Index shard stores
- Index stats
- Index template exists (legacy)
- List dangling indices
- Open index
- Refresh
- Resolve index
- Resolve cluster
- Advantages of using this endpoint before a cross-cluster search
- Rollover
- Shrink index
- Simulate index
- Simulate template
- Split index
- Update index settings
- Update mapping
- Index lifecycle management APIs
- Create or update lifecycle policy
- Get policy
- Delete policy
- Move to step
- Remove policy
- Retry policy
- Get index lifecycle management status
- Explain lifecycle
- Start index lifecycle management
- Stop index lifecycle management
- Migrate indices, ILM policies, and legacy, composable and component templates to data tiers routing
- Inference APIs
- Delete inference API
- Get inference API
- Perform inference API
- Chat completion inference API
- Create inference API
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- Update inference API
- Elastic Inference Service (EIS)
- AlibabaCloud AI Search inference integration
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- Google AI Studio inference integration
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- HuggingFace inference integration
- JinaAI inference integration
- Mistral inference integration
- OpenAI inference integration
- Watsonx inference integration
- Info API
- Ingest APIs
- Licensing APIs
- Logstash APIs
- Machine learning APIs
- Machine learning anomaly detection APIs
- Add events to calendar
- Add jobs to calendar
- Close jobs
- Create jobs
- Create calendars
- Create datafeeds
- Create filters
- Delete calendars
- Delete datafeeds
- Delete events from calendar
- Delete filters
- Delete forecasts
- Delete jobs
- Delete jobs from calendar
- Delete model snapshots
- Delete expired data
- Estimate model memory
- Flush jobs
- Forecast jobs
- Get buckets
- Get calendars
- Get categories
- Get datafeeds
- Get datafeed statistics
- Get influencers
- Get jobs
- Get job statistics
- Get model snapshots
- Get model snapshot upgrade statistics
- Get overall buckets
- Get scheduled events
- Get filters
- Get records
- Open jobs
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- Preview datafeeds
- Reset jobs
- Revert model snapshots
- Start datafeeds
- Stop datafeeds
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- Update filters
- Update jobs
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- Upgrade model snapshots
- Machine learning data frame analytics APIs
- Create data frame analytics jobs
- Delete data frame analytics jobs
- Evaluate data frame analytics
- Explain data frame analytics
- Get data frame analytics jobs
- Get data frame analytics jobs stats
- Preview data frame analytics
- Start data frame analytics jobs
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- Update data frame analytics jobs
- Machine learning trained model APIs
- Clear trained model deployment cache
- Create or update trained model aliases
- Create part of a trained model
- Create trained models
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- Delete trained model aliases
- Delete trained models
- Get trained models
- Get trained models stats
- Infer trained model
- Start trained model deployment
- Stop trained model deployment
- Update trained model deployment
- Migration APIs
- Node lifecycle APIs
- Query rules APIs
- Reload search analyzers API
- Repositories metering APIs
- Rollup APIs
- Root API
- Script APIs
- Search APIs
- Search Application APIs
- Searchable snapshots APIs
- Security APIs
- Authenticate
- Change passwords
- Clear cache
- Clear roles cache
- Clear privileges cache
- Clear API key cache
- Clear service account token caches
- Create API keys
- Create or update application privileges
- Create or update role mappings
- Create or update roles
- Bulk create or update roles API
- Bulk delete roles API
- Create or update users
- Create service account tokens
- Delegate PKI authentication
- Delete application privileges
- Delete role mappings
- Delete roles
- Delete service account token
- Delete users
- Disable users
- Enable users
- Enroll Kibana
- Enroll node
- Get API key information
- Get application privileges
- Get builtin privileges
- Get role mappings
- Get roles
- Query Role
- Get service accounts
- Get service account credentials
- Get Security settings
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- Get user privileges
- Get users
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- Has privileges
- Invalidate API key
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- Query User
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- Enable user profile
- Get user profiles
- Suggest user profile
- Update user profile data
- Has privileges user profile
- Create Cross-Cluster API key
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- Snapshot lifecycle management APIs
- SQL APIs
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- Fix other role nodes out of disk
- Start index lifecycle management
- Start Snapshot Lifecycle Management
- Restore from snapshot
- Troubleshooting broken repositories
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- Dependencies and versions
Built-in roles
editBuilt-in roles
editThe Elastic Stack security features apply a default role to all users, including anonymous users. The default role enables users to access the authenticate endpoint, change their own passwords, and get information about themselves.
There is also a set of built-in roles you can explicitly assign to users. These roles have a fixed set of privileges and cannot be updated.
-
apm_system
- Grants access necessary for the APM system user to send system-level data (such as monitoring) to Elasticsearch.
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beats_admin
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Grants access to the
.management-beats
index, which contains configuration information for the Beats. -
beats_system
-
Grants access necessary for the Beats system user to send system-level data (such as monitoring) to Elasticsearch.
- This role should not be assigned to users as the granted permissions may change between releases.
- This role does not provide access to the beats indices and is not suitable for writing beats output to Elasticsearch.
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editor
-
Grants full access to all features in Kibana (including Solutions) and read-only access to data indices.
- This role provides read access to any index that is not prefixed with a dot.
- This role automatically grants full access to new Kibana features as soon as they are released.
- Some Kibana features may also require creation or write access to data indices. Machine learning data frame analytics jobs is an example. For such features those privileges must be defined in a separate role.
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enrich_user
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Grants access to manage all enrich indices (
.enrich-*
) and all operations on ingest pipelines. -
inference_admin
-
Provides all of the privileges of the
inference_user
role and the full use of the {inference} APIs. Grants themanage_inference
cluster privilege. -
inference_user
-
Provides the minimum privileges required to view {inference} configurations
and perform inference. Grants the
monintor_inference
cluster privilege. -
ingest_admin
-
Grants access to manage all index templates and all ingest pipeline configurations.
This role does not provide the ability to create indices; those privileges must be defined in a separate role.
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kibana_dashboard_only_user
- (This role is deprecated, please use Kibana feature privileges instead). Grants read-only access to the Kibana Dashboard in every space in Kibana. This role does not have access to editing tools in Kibana.
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kibana_system
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Grants access necessary for the Kibana system user to read from and write to the Kibana indices, manage index templates and tokens, and check the availability of the Elasticsearch cluster. It also permits activating, searching, and retrieving user profiles, as well as updating user profile data for the
kibana-*
namespace. This role grants read access to the.monitoring-*
indices and read and write access to the.reporting-*
indices. For more information, see Configuring Security in Kibana.This role should not be assigned to users as the granted permissions may change between releases.
-
kibana_admin
- Grants access to all features in Kibana. For more information on Kibana authorization, see Kibana authorization.
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kibana_user
-
(This role is deprecated, please use the
kibana_admin
role instead.) Grants access to all features in Kibana. For more information on Kibana authorization, see Kibana authorization. -
logstash_admin
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Grants access to the
.logstash*
indices for managing configurations, and grants necessary access for logstash-specific APIs exposed by the logstash x-pack plugin. -
logstash_system
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Grants access necessary for the Logstash system user to send system-level data (such as monitoring) to Elasticsearch. For more information, see Configuring Security in Logstash.
- This role should not be assigned to users as the granted permissions may change between releases.
- This role does not provide access to the logstash indices and is not suitable for use within a Logstash pipeline.
-
machine_learning_admin
-
Provides all of the privileges of the
machine_learning_user
role plus the full use of the machine learning APIs. Grantsmanage_ml
cluster privileges, read access to.ml-anomalies*
,.ml-notifications*
,.ml-state*
,.ml-meta*
indices and write access to.ml-annotations*
indices. Machine learning administrators also need index privileges for source and destination indices and roles that grant access to Kibana. See Machine learning security privileges. -
machine_learning_user
-
Grants the minimum privileges required to view machine learning configuration,
status, and work with results. This role grants
monitor_ml
cluster privileges, read access to the.ml-notifications
and.ml-anomalies*
indices (which store machine learning results), and write access to.ml-annotations*
indices. Machine learning users also need index privileges for source and destination indices and roles that grant access to Kibana. See Machine learning security privileges. -
monitoring_user
-
Grants the minimum privileges required for any user of X-Pack monitoring other than those
required to use Kibana. This role grants access to the monitoring indices and grants
privileges necessary for reading basic cluster information. This role also includes
all Kibana privileges for the Elastic Stack monitoring features.
Monitoring users should also be assigned the
kibana_admin
role, or another role with access to the Kibana instance. -
remote_monitoring_agent
-
Grants the minimum privileges required to write data into the monitoring indices
(
.monitoring-*
). This role also has the privileges necessary to create Metricbeat indices (metricbeat-*
) and write data into them. -
remote_monitoring_collector
- Grants the minimum privileges required to collect monitoring data for the Elastic Stack.
-
reporting_user
- Grants the necessary privileges required to use X-Pack reporting features in Kibana, including generating and downloading reports. This role implicitly grants access to all Kibana reporting features, with each user having access only to their own reports. Note that reporting users should also be assigned additional roles that grant read access to the indices that will be used to generate reports.
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rollup_admin
-
Grants
manage_rollup
cluster privileges, which enable you to manage and execute all rollup actions. -
rollup_user
-
Grants
monitor_rollup
cluster privileges, which enable you to perform read-only operations related to rollups. -
snapshot_user
- Grants the necessary privileges to create snapshots of all the indices and to view their metadata. This role enables users to view the configuration of existing snapshot repositories and snapshot details. It does not grant authority to remove or add repositories or to restore snapshots. It also does not enable to change index settings or to read or update data stream or index data.
-
superuser
-
Grants full access to cluster management and data indices. This role also grants direct read-only access to restricted indices like
.security
. A user with thesuperuser
role can impersonate any other user in the system.On Elastic Cloud, all standard users, including those with the
superuser
role are restricted from performing operator-only actions.This role can manage security and create roles with unlimited privileges. Take extra care when assigning it to a user.
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transform_admin
-
Grants
manage_transform
cluster privileges, which enable you to manage transforms. This role also includes all Kibana privileges for the machine learning features. -
transform_user
-
Grants
monitor_transform
cluster privileges, which enable you to perform read-only operations related to transforms. This role also includes all Kibana privileges for the machine learning features. -
transport_client
-
Grants the privileges required to access the cluster through the Java Transport Client. The Java Transport Client fetches information about the nodes in the cluster using the Node Liveness API and the Cluster State API (when sniffing is enabled). Assign your users this role if they use the Transport Client.
Using the Transport Client effectively means the users are granted access to the cluster state. This means users can view the metadata over all indices, index templates, mappings, node and basically everything about the cluster. However, this role does not grant permission to view the data in all indices.
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viewer
-
Grants read-only access to all features in Kibana (including Solutions) and to data indices.
- This role provides read access to any index that is not prefixed with a dot.
- This role automatically grants read-only access to new Kibana features as soon as they are available.
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watcher_admin
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Allows users to create and execute all Watcher actions. Grants read access to the
.watches
index. Also grants read access to the watch history and the triggered watches index. -
watcher_user
-
Grants read access to the
.watches
index, the get watch action and the watcher stats.