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Reader role

For users who need to view and create visualizations that access Synthetics data, provide read access. Two types of read access are outlined below:

General read access: For most users, you can use General read access, which grants read access to all Kibana apps and requires little configuration.
Limited read access: If you want to limit read access to the Synthetics app only, you can use Limited read access, which requires additional configuration.

For users who only need to view results in Kibana, use the viewer built-in role.

If you want to limit read access to the Synthetics app only, do not use the viewer built-in role.

Instead to you can create a reader role, called something like synthetics_reader_limited, and grant the following privileges:

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Index	`synthetics-*`: `read`	Read-only access to synthetics indices.
Index	`.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-*`: `read`	Read-only access to synthetics alert indices.
Kibana	`Synthetics and Uptime`: `All`	Access to the Synthetics app in Kibana.