Get service accounts API

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Retrieves information about service accounts.

Currently, only the elastic/fleet-server service account is available.

Request

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GET /_security/service

GET /_security/service/<namespace>

GET /_security/service/<namespace>/<service>

Prerequisites

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  • To use this API, you must have at least the manage_service_account cluster privilege.

Description

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This API returns a list of service accounts that match the provided path parameter(s).

Path parameters

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namespace
(Optional, string) Name of the namespace. Omit this parameter to retrieve information about all service accounts. If you omit this parameter, you must also omit the service parameter.
service
(Optional, string) Name of the service name. Omit this parameter to retrieve information about all service accounts that belong to the specified namespace.

Response body

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A successful call returns a JSON object of service accounts. The API returns an empty object if no service account is found.

Examples

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To following request retrieves a service account for the elastic/fleet-server service account:

GET /_security/service/elastic/fleet-server
{
  "elastic/fleet-server": {
    "role_descriptor": {
      "cluster": [
        "monitor",
        "manage_own_api_key",
        "read_fleet_secrets"
      ],
      "indices": [
        {
          "names": [
            "logs-*",
            "metrics-*",
            "traces-*",
            ".logs-endpoint.diagnostic.collection-*",
            ".logs-endpoint.action.responses-*",
            ".logs-endpoint.heartbeat-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "write",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "profiling-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "traces-apm.sampled-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "monitor",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-secrets*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-actions*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-agents*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-artifacts*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-enrollment-api-keys*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-policies*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-policies-leader*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-servers*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            ".fleet-fileds*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "monitor",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure",
            "maintenance"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": true
        },
        {
          "names": [
            "synthetics-*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "read",
            "write",
            "create_index",
            "auto_configure"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        }
      ],
      "applications": [
        {
          "application": "kibana-*",
          "privileges": [
            "reserved_fleet-setup"
          ],
          "resources": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "run_as": [],
      "metadata": {},
      "transient_metadata": {
        "enabled": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Omit the namespace and service to retrieve all service accounts:

GET /_security/service