- Observability: other versions:
- Get started
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 9.0
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
- Add data from Splunk
- Applications and services
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Get started
- Learn about data types
- Collect application data
- View and analyze data
- Act on data
- Use APM securely
- Manage storage
- Configure APM Server
- Monitor APM Server
- APM APIs
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- APM version HEAD
- APM version 8.17
- APM version 8.16
- APM version 8.15
- APM version 8.14
- APM version 8.13
- APM version 8.12
- APM version 8.11
- APM version 8.10
- APM version 8.9
- APM version 8.8
- APM version 8.7
- APM version 8.6
- APM version 8.5
- APM version 8.4
- APM version 8.3
- APM version 8.2
- APM version 8.1
- APM version 8.0
- Known issues
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Real user monitoring
- Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
- Tutorial: Monitor a Java application
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Infrastructure and hosts
- Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Incident management
- Data set quality
- Observability AI Assistant
- Reference
Applications UI central config user
editApplications UI central config user
editCentral configuration manager
editCentral configuration users need to be able to view, create, update, and delete APM agent configurations.
-
Create a new role, named something like
central-config-manager
, and assign the following privileges:Type Privilege Purpose Index
read
onapm-agent-configuration
Read-only access to
apm-agent-configuration
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onapm-agent-configuration
Read-only access to
apm-agent-configuration
index metadataIndex
read
onlogs-apm*
Read-only access to
logs-apm*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onlogs-apm*
Read-only access to
logs-apm*
index metadataIndex
read
onmetrics-apm*
Read-only access to
metrics-apm*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onmetrics-apm*
Read-only access to
metrics-apm*
index metadataIndex
read
ontraces-apm*
Read-only access to
traces-apm*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
ontraces-apm*
Read-only access to
traces-apm*
index metadataType Privilege Purpose Index
read
onapm-*
Read-only access to
apm-*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onapm-*
Read-only access to
apm-*
index metadataUsing the deprecated APM Server binaries? Add the privileges under the Classic APM indices tab above.
-
Assign the
central-config-manager
role created in the previous step, and the following Kibana feature privileges to anyone who needs to manage central configurations:Type Privilege Purpose Kibana
All
on the APM and User Experience featureAllow full use of the Applications and User Experience UIs
Central configuration reader
editIn some instances, you may wish to create a user that can only read central configurations, but not create, update, or delete them.
-
Create a new role, named something like
central-config-reader
, and assign the following privileges:Type Privilege Purpose Index
read
onapm-agent-configuration
Read-only access to
apm-agent-configuration
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onapm-agent-configuration
Read-only access to
apm-agent-configuration
index metadataIndex
read
onlogs-apm*
Read-only access to
logs-apm*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onlogs-apm*
Read-only access to
logs-apm*
index metadataIndex
read
onmetrics-apm*
Read-only access to
metrics-apm*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onmetrics-apm*
Read-only access to
metrics-apm*
index metadataIndex
read
ontraces-apm*
Read-only access to
traces-apm*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
ontraces-apm*
Read-only access to
traces-apm*
index metadataType Privilege Purpose Index
read
onapm-*
Read-only access to
apm-*
dataIndex
view_index_metadata
onapm-*
Read-only access to
apm-*
index metadataUsing the deprecated APM Server binaries? Add the privileges under the Classic APM indices tab above.
-
Assign the
central-config-reader
role created in the previous step, and the following Kibana feature privileges to anyone who needs to read central configurations:Type Privilege Purpose Kibana
read
on the APM and User Experience featureAllow read access to the Applications and User Experience UIs
Central configuration API
editSee Create an API user.
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