Get all Kibana roles APIedit

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Retrieve all Kibana roles.

Prerequisiteedit

To use the get role API, you must have the manage_security cluster privilege.

Requestedit

GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/security/role

Response codeedit

200
Indicates a successful call.

Exampleedit

The API returns the following:

[
  {
    "name": "my_kibana_role",
    "metadata" : {
      "version" : 1
    },
    "transient_metadata": {
      "enabled": true
    },
    "elasticsearch": {
      "indices": [ ],
      "cluster": [ ],
      "run_as": [ ]
    },
    "kibana": [{
      "base": [
        "all"
      ],
      "feature": {},
      "spaces": [
        "*"
      ]
    }]
  },
  {
    "name": "my_admin_role",
    "metadata" : {
      "version" : 1
    },
    "transient_metadata": {
      "enabled": true
    },
    "elasticsearch": {
      "cluster" : [ "all" ],
      "indices" : [ {
        "names" : [ "index1", "index2" ],
        "privileges" : [ "all" ],
        "field_security" : {
          "grant" : [ "title", "body" ]
        },
        "query" : "{\"match\": {\"title\": \"foo\"}}"
      } ],
    },
    "kibana": [ ]
  }
]