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Security Privileges
editSecurity Privileges
editThis section lists the privileges that you can assign to a role.
Cluster Privileges
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All cluster administration operations, like snapshotting, node shutdown/restart, settings update, rerouting, or managing users and roles. |
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All cluster read-only operations, like cluster health and state, hot threads, node info, node and cluster stats, and pending cluster tasks. |
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All read only machine learning operations, such as getting information about datafeeds, jobs, model snapshots, or results. |
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All read only watcher operations, such as getting a watch and watcher stats. |
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All operations on index templates. |
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All machine learning operations, such as creating and deleting datafeeds, jobs, and model snapshots. Datafeeds run as a system user with elevated privileges, including permission to read all indices. |
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All operations on ingest pipelines. |
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All security related operations such as CRUD operations on users and roles and cache clearing. |
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All watcher operations, such as putting watches, executing, activate or acknowledging. Watches run as a system user with elevated privileges, including permission to read and write all indices. |
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All privileges necessary for a transport client to connect. Required by the remote cluster to enable Cross Cluster Search. |
Indices Privileges
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Any action on an index |
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All actions that are required for monitoring (recovery, segments info, index stats and status). |
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Read-only access to index metadata (aliases, aliases exists, get index, exists, field mappings, mappings, search shards, type exists, validate, warmers, settings). This privilege is primarily available for use by Kibana users. |
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Read only access to actions (count, explain, get, mget, get indexed scripts, more like this, multi percolate/search/termvector, percolate, scroll, clear_scroll, search, suggest, tv). |
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Read only access to the search action from a remote cluster. |
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Privilege to index and update documents. Also grants access to the update mapping action. |
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Privilege to index documents. Also grants access to the update mapping action. |
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Privilege to delete documents. |
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Privilege to perform all write operations to documents, which includes the permission to index, update, and delete documents as well as performing bulk operations. Also grants access to the update mapping action. |
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Privilege to delete an index. |
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Privilege to create an index. A create index request may contain aliases to be
added to the index once created. In that case the request requires the |
Run As Privilege
editThe run_as
permission enables an authenticated user to submit requests on
behalf of another user. The value can be a user name or a comma-separated list
of user names. (You can also specify users as an array of strings or a YAML
sequence.) For more information, see
Submitting Requests on Behalf of Other Users.