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Reader role
editReader role
editFor 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.
General read access
editFor users who only need to view results in Kibana,
use the viewer
built-in role.
Limited read access
editIf 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: