Grant privileges and roles needed for publishing
editGrant privileges and roles needed for publishing
editUsers who publish events to Elasticsearch need to create and write to Metricbeat indices. To minimize the privileges required by the writer role, use the setup role to pre-load dependencies. This section assumes that you’ve run the setup.
When using ILM, turn off the ILM setup check in the Metricbeat config file before running Metricbeat to publish events:
setup.ilm.check_exists: false
To grant the required privileges:
-
Create a writer role, called something like
metricbeat_writer
, that has the following privileges:The
monitor
cluster privilege and thecreate_doc
privilege onmetricbeat-*
indices are required in every configuration.Type Privilege Purpose Cluster
monitor
Retrieve cluster details (e.g. version)
Cluster
read_ilm
Read the ILM policy when connecting to clusters that support ILM. Not needed when
setup.ilm.check_exists
isfalse
.Index
create_doc
onmetricbeat-*
indicesWrite events into Elasticsearch
Omit any privileges that aren’t relevant in your environment.
- Assign the writer role to users who will index events into Elasticsearch.