Grant privileges and roles needed for setup

Administrators who set up Packetbeat typically need to load mappings, dashboards, and other objects used to index data into Elasticsearch and visualize it in Kibana.

To grant users the required privileges:

1. Create a setup role, called something like packetbeat_setup, that has the following privileges:

   Type	Privilege	Purpose
   Cluster	monitor	Retrieve cluster details (e.g. version)
   Cluster	manage_ilm	Set up and manage index lifecycle management (ILM) policy
   Index	manage on packetbeat-* indices	Load data stream

   Omit any privileges that aren’t relevant in your environment.

   Note

   These instructions assume that you are using the default name for Packetbeat indices. If packetbeat-* is not listed, or you are using a custom name, enter it manually and modify the privileges to match your index naming pattern.

2. Assign the setup role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to set up Packetbeat:

   Role	Purpose
   kibana_admin	Load dependencies, such as example dashboards, if available, into Kibana
   ingest_admin	Set up index templates and, if available, ingest pipelines

   Omit any roles that aren’t relevant in your environment.