- Observability: other versions:
- Get started
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.17
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with OpenTelemetry
- 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
- 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 annotation user
editApplications UI annotation user
editBy default, the viewer
and editor
built-in roles provide read access to Observability annotations.
You only need to create an annotation user to write to the annotations index
(xpack.observability.annotations.index
).
Annotation user
editView deployment annotations in the Applications UI.
-
Create a new role, named something like
annotation_user
, and assign the following privileges:Type Privilege Purpose Index
read
on{ANNOTATION_INDEX}
1Read-only access to the observability annotation index
Index
view_index_metadata
on{ANNOTATION_INDEX}
1Read-only access to observability annotation index metadata
1
{ANNOTATION_INDEX}
should be the index name you’ve defined inxpack.observability.annotations.index
. -
Assign the
annotation_user
created previously, and the roles and privileges necessary to create a full or partial APM reader to any users that need to view annotations in the Applications UI
Annotation API
editSee Create an API user.
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