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Grant privileges and roles needed to read Filebeat data from Kibana

Kibana users typically need to view dashboards and visualizations that contain Filebeat data. These users might also need to create and edit dashboards and visualizations.

To grant users the required privileges:

  1. Create a reader role, called something like filebeat_reader, that has the following privilege:

    Type Privilege Purpose
    Index read on filebeat-* indices Read data indexed by Filebeat
    Spaces Read or All on Dashboards, Visualize, and Discover Allow the user to view, edit, and create dashboards, as well as browse data.
    Spaces Read or All on Kibana Logs Allow the use of Kibana Logs
  2. Assign the reader role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to read Filebeat data:

    Role Purpose
    monitoring_user Allow users to monitor the health of Filebeat itself. Only assign this role to users who manage Filebeat.