Configure service-level objective (SLO) access

To create and manage SLOs, you need an appropriate license and an Elasticsearch cluster with both transform and ingest node roles present.

You can enable access to SLOs in two different ways:

Creating the following roles, depending on the type of access needed:
- SLO Editor — Create, edit, and manage SLOs and their historical summaries.
- SLO Viewer — Check SLOs and their historical summaries.
Using the editor built-in role. This role grants full access to all features in Kibana (including the Observability solution) and read-only access to data indices. Users assigned to this role can create, edit, and manage SLOs.

The editor built-in role grants write access to all Kibana apps. If you want to limit access to the SLOs only, you have to manually create and assign the mentioned roles.

To create a role:

To open Roles, find Stack Management in the main menu or use the global search field.
On the Roles page, click Create role.

Set the following privileges for the SLO Editor role:

Under Index privileges in the Elasticsearch section, add .slo-observability-* to the Indices field and read, view_index_metadata, write, and manage to the Privileges field.
Click Add index privilege.
In the Indices field, add the indices for which you plan to create SLOs. Then, add read and view_index_metadata to the Privileges field. The following example shows logs-*, but you can specify any indices.
In the Kibana section, click Add Kibana privilege.
From the Spaces dropdown, either select any specific spaces you want the role to apply to, or select All Spaces.
Set Observability → SLOs to All.
Click Create Role at the bottom of the page and assign the role to the relevant users.

Set the following privileges for the SLO Read role:

Under Index privileges in the Elasticsearch section, add .slo-observability-* to the Indices field and read and view_index_metadata to the Privileges field.
In the Kibana section, click Add Kibana privilege.
From the Spaces dropdown, either select any specific spaces you want the role to apply to, or select All Spaces.
Set Observability → SLOs to Read.
Click Create Role at the bottom of the page and assign the role to the relevant users.