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Grant privileges and roles needed to read Heartbeat data from Kibana

Kibana users typically need to view dashboards and visualizations that contain Heartbeat 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 heartbeat_reader, that has the following privilege:

    Type Privilege Purpose
    Index read on heartbeat-* indices Read data indexed by Heartbeat
    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 Uptime Allow the use of Kibana Uptime
  2. Assign the reader role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to read Heartbeat data:

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