Create or update roles
- POST also PUT /_security/role/{name}
The role management APIs are generally the preferred way to manage roles in the native realm, rather than using file-based role management. The create or update roles API cannot update roles that are defined in roles files. File-based role management is not available in Elastic Serverless.
Read the reference documentationRequired privileges
- Cluster privileges manage_security
Request body
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clusterunion anyOf[] -
A list of cluster privileges. These privileges define the cluster-level actions for users with this role.
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Values:
allcancel_taskcreate_snapshotcross_cluster_replicationcross_cluster_searchdelegate_pkigrant_api_keymanagemanage_api_keymanage_autoscalingmanage_behavioral_analyticsmanage_ccrmanage_data_frame_transformsmanage_data_stream_global_retentionmanage_enrichmanage_ilmmanage_index_templatesmanage_inferencemanage_ingest_pipelinesmanage_logstash_pipelinesmanage_mlmanage_oidcmanage_own_api_keymanage_pipelinemanage_rollupmanage_samlmanage_search_applicationmanage_search_query_rulesmanage_search_synonymsmanage_securitymanage_service_accountmanage_slmmanage_tokenmanage_transformmanage_user_profilemanage_watchermonitormonitor_data_frame_transformsmonitor_data_stream_global_retentionmonitor_enrichmonitor_inferencemonitor_mlmonitor_rollupmonitor_snapshotmonitor_statsmonitor_text_structuremonitor_transformmonitor_watchernonepost_behavioral_analytics_eventread_ccrread_fleet_secretsread_ilmread_pipelineread_securityread_slmtransport_clientwrite_connector_secretswrite_fleet_secrets -
globalmap string to object -
An object defining global privileges. A global privilege is a form of cluster privilege that is request-aware. Support for global privileges is currently limited to the management of application privileges.
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indicesobject[] -
A list of indices permissions entries.
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field_securityobject -
The document fields that the owners of the role have read access to.
- Reference
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namesstring[]required -
A list of indices (or index name patterns) to which the permissions in this entry apply.
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privilegesunion anyOf[]required -
The index level privileges that owners of the role have on the specified indices.
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Values:
allauto_configurecreatecreate_doccreate_indexcross_cluster_replicationcross_cluster_replication_internaldeletedelete_indexindexmaintenancemanagemanage_data_stream_lifecyclemanage_follow_indexmanage_ilmmanage_leader_indexmonitornonereadread_cross_clusterview_index_metadatawrite -
queryunion oneOf -
A search query that defines the documents the owners of the role have access to. A document within the specified indices must match this query for it to be accessible by the owners of the role.
- One of:
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templateobject -
When you create a role, you can specify a query that defines the document level security permissions. You can optionally use Mustache templates in the role query to insert the username of the current authenticated user into the role. Like other places in Elasticsearch that support templating or scripting, you can specify inline, stored, or file-based templates and define custom parameters. You access the details for the current authenticated user through the _user parameter.
- Reference
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sourceunion oneOf - One of:
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paramsmap string to object -
Specifies any named parameters that are passed into the script as variables. Use parameters instead of hard-coded values to decrease compile time.
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langunion anyOf · default: painless -
Specifies the language the script is written in.
Supported values include:
painless: Painless scripting language, purpose-built for Elasticsearch.expression: Lucene’s expressions language, compiles a JavaScript expression to bytecode.mustache: Mustache templated, used for templates.java: Expert Java API
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Values:
painlessexpressionmustachejava -
allow_restricted_indicesboolean · default: false -
Set to
trueif using wildcard or regular expressions for patterns that cover restricted indices. Implicitly, restricted indices have limited privileges that can cause pattern tests to fail. If restricted indices are explicitly included in thenameslist, Elasticsearch checks privileges against these indices regardless of the value set forallow_restricted_indices. -
remote_indicesobject[]The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 8.14 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. -
A list of remote indices permissions entries.
NoteRemote indices are effective for remote clusters configured with the API key based model. They have no effect for remote clusters configured with the certificate based model.
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clustersunion oneOfrequired -
A list of cluster aliases to which the permissions in this entry apply.
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One of:
string[]orstring -
field_securityobject -
The document fields that the owners of the role have read access to.
- Reference
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namesstring[]required -
A list of indices (or index name patterns) to which the permissions in this entry apply.
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privilegesunion anyOf[]required -
The index level privileges that owners of the role have on the specified indices.
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Values:
allauto_configurecreatecreate_doccreate_indexcross_cluster_replicationcross_cluster_replication_internaldeletedelete_indexindexmaintenancemanagemanage_data_stream_lifecyclemanage_follow_indexmanage_ilmmanage_leader_indexmonitornonereadread_cross_clusterview_index_metadatawrite -
queryunion oneOf -
A search query that defines the documents the owners of the role have access to. A document within the specified indices must match this query for it to be accessible by the owners of the role.
- One of:
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templateobject -
When you create a role, you can specify a query that defines the document level security permissions. You can optionally use Mustache templates in the role query to insert the username of the current authenticated user into the role. Like other places in Elasticsearch that support templating or scripting, you can specify inline, stored, or file-based templates and define custom parameters. You access the details for the current authenticated user through the _user parameter.
- Reference
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sourceunion oneOf - One of:
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paramsmap string to object -
Specifies any named parameters that are passed into the script as variables. Use parameters instead of hard-coded values to decrease compile time.
-
langunion anyOf · default: painless -
Specifies the language the script is written in.
Supported values include:
painless: Painless scripting language, purpose-built for Elasticsearch.expression: Lucene’s expressions language, compiles a JavaScript expression to bytecode.mustache: Mustache templated, used for templates.java: Expert Java API
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Values:
painlessexpressionmustachejava -
allow_restricted_indicesboolean · default: false -
Set to
trueif using wildcard or regular expressions for patterns that cover restricted indices. Implicitly, restricted indices have limited privileges that can cause pattern tests to fail. If restricted indices are explicitly included in thenameslist, Elasticsearch checks privileges against these indices regardless of the value set forallow_restricted_indices. -
remote_clusterobject[]The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 8.15 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. -
A list of remote cluster permissions entries.
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metadataobject -
Optional metadata. Within the metadata object, keys that begin with an underscore (
_) are reserved for system use. -
run_asstring[] -
A list of users that the owners of this role can impersonate. Note: in Serverless, the run-as feature is disabled. For API compatibility, you can still specify an empty
run_asfield, but a non-empty list will be rejected. - Reference
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transient_metadatamap string to object -
Indicates roles that might be incompatible with the current cluster license, specifically roles with document and field level security. When the cluster license doesn’t allow certain features for a given role, this parameter is updated dynamically to list the incompatible features. If
enabledisfalse, the role is ignored, but is still listed in the response from the authenticate API.
Query
An Elasticsearch Query DSL (Domain Specific Language) object that defines a query.
Query
An Elasticsearch Query DSL (Domain Specific Language) object that defines a query.
Query
An Elasticsearch Query DSL (Domain Specific Language) object that defines a query.
Query
An Elasticsearch Query DSL (Domain Specific Language) object that defines a query.