Get a role

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

GET /api/security/role/{name}

Authentication

Api key

Authorization: <value>

These APIs use key-based authentication. You must create an API key and use the encoded value in the request header. For example: Authorization: ApiKey base64AccessApiKey

Basic

Authorization: Basic <credentials>

Path parameters

Query parameters

Response

200

Indicates a successful call.

application/json

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

GET kbn:/api/security/role/NAME

Generated from the API spec

curl Shell

curl -X GET "${KIBANA_URL}/api/security/role/${NAME}" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}"

Generated from the API spec

Response

{
  "name": "my_kibana_role",
  "description": "Grants all cluster privileges and full access to index1 and index2. Grants full access to remote_index1 and remote_index2, and the monitor_enrich cluster privilege on remote_cluster1. Grants all Kibana privileges in the default space.",
  "metadata": {
    "version": 1
  },
  "transient_metadata": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "elasticsearch": {
    "cluster": [
      "all"
    ],
    "remote_cluster": [
      {
        "privileges": [
          "monitor_enrich"
        ],
        "clusters": [
          "remote_cluster1"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "indices": [
      {
        "names": [
          "index1",
          "index2"
        ],
        "privileges": [
          "all"
        ],
        "allow_restricted_indices": false
      }
    ],
    "remote_indices": [
      {
        "names": [
          "remote_index1",
          "remote_index2"
        ],
        "privileges": [
          "all"
        ],
        "allow_restricted_indices": false,
        "clusters": [
          "remote_cluster1"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "run_as": []
  },
  "kibana": [
    {
      "base": [
        "all"
      ],
      "feature": {},
      "spaces": [
        "default"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_transform_error": [],
  "_unrecognized_applications": []
}