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Applications UI storage explorer user

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.

View the Storage Explorer in the Applications UI.

  1. Create a new role, named something like storage-explorer_user, and assign the following privileges:

    Type Privilege Purpose
    Cluster monitor Monitor the disk space used by APM data streams
    Index monitor on logs-apm* Monitor access to logs-apm* for storage explorer
    Index monitor on metrics-apm* Monitor access to metrics-apm* for storage explorer
    Index monitor on traces-apm* Monitor access to traces-apm* for storage explorer
    Type Privilege Purpose
    Cluster monitor Monitor the disk space used by APM indices
    Index monitor on apm-* Monitor access to apm-* for storage explorer

  2. Assign the storage-explorer_user created previously, and the roles and privileges necessary to create a full or partial APM reader to any users that need to view Storage Explorer in the Applications UI.