Grant privileges and roles needed to read Winlogbeat data from Kibanaedit

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.