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Grant privileges and roles needed to read Winlogbeat data from Kibana

Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    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.

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

    Type Privilege Purpose
    Index read on winlogbeat-* indices Read data indexed by Winlogbeat
    Spaces Read or All on Dashboards, Visualize, and Discover Allow the user to view, edit, and create dashboards, as well as browse data.
  2. Assign the reader role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to read Winlogbeat data:

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