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Grant privileges and roles needed for publishing

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Grant privileges and roles needed for publishing

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Users 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 the create_doc and auto_configure privileges on metricbeat-* 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` is `false`.
Index	`create_doc` on `metricbeat-*` indices	Write events into Elasticsearch
Index	`auto_configure` on `metricbeat-*` indices	Update the datastream mapping. Consider either disabling entirely or adding the rule `-{beat_default_index_prefix}-*` to the cluster settings action.auto_create_index to prevent unwanted indices creations from the agents.

Omit any privileges that aren’t relevant in your environment.

Assign the writer role to users who will index events into Elasticsearch.

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