Get user privileges

GET /_security/user/_privileges

Get the security privileges for the logged in user. All users can use this API, but only to determine their own privileges. To check the privileges of other users, you must use the run as feature. To check whether a user has a specific list of privileges, use the has privileges API.

Response

application/json

Examples

A successful response from GET /_security/user/_privileges.

Request Console 1 / 8 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

GET /_security/user/_privileges

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.security.getUserPrivileges();

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.security.get_user_privileges()

curl Shell

curl -X GET "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_security/user/_privileges" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

Java Elasticsearch Java Client

client.security().getUserPrivileges();

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.Security.GetUserPrivilegesAsync();

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->security()->getUserPrivileges();

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.security.get_user_privileges

Response

{
  "cluster" : [
    "all"
  ],
  "global" : [ ],
  "indices" : [
    {
      "names" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "privileges" : [
        "all"
      ],
      "allow_restricted_indices" : true
    }
  ],
  "applications" : [
    {
      "application" : "*",
      "privileges" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "resources" : [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "run_as" : [
    "*"
  ]
}