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Create or Update Role

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Create or Update Role

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This API is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a future release. Although the underlying mechanism of enforcing role-based access control is stable, the APIs for managing the roles are currently experimental.

Creates a new Kibana role or updates the attributes of an existing role. Kibana roles are stored in the Elasticsearch native realm.

You cannot access this endpoint via the Console in Kibana.

Authorization

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

Request

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To create or update a role, issue a PUT request to the /api/security/role/<rolename> endpoint.

PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role

Request Body

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The following parameters can be specified in the body of a PUT request to add or update a role:

metadata
(object) Optional meta-data. Within the metadata object, keys that begin with _ are reserved for system usage.
elasticsearch
(object) Optional Elasticsearch cluster and index privileges, valid keys are cluster, indices and run_as. For more information, see Defining roles.
kibana

(list) A list of objects that specifies the Kibana privileges for this role:

base
(list) An optional base privilege. If specified, must either be ["all"] or ["read"]. The feature section cannot be used if a base privilege is specified here. You must use one or the other. "all" grants read/write access to all Kibana features for the specified spaces. "read" grants read-only access to all Kibana features for the specified spaces.
feature
(object) Object containing privileges for specific features. The base section cannot be used if feature privileges are specified here. You must use one or the other. Use the Features API to retrieve a list of available features.
spaces
(list) The spaces these privileges should be applied to. To grant access to all spaces, set this to ["*"], or omit the value.

Example 1

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Granting access to various features in all spaces.

PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role
{
  "metadata" : {
    "version" : 1
  },
  "elasticsearch": {
    "cluster" : [ ],
    "indices" : [ ]
  },
  "kibana": [
    {
      "base": [],
      "feature": {
       "discover": [
          "all"
        ],
        "visualize": [
          "all"
        ],
        "dashboard": [
          "all"
        ],
        "dev_tools": [
          "read"
        ],
        "advancedSettings": [
          "read"
        ],
        "indexPatterns": [
          "read"
        ],
        "timelion": [
          "all"
        ],
        "graph": [
          "all"
        ],
        "apm": [
          "read"
        ],
        "maps": [
          "read"
        ],
        "canvas": [
          "read"
        ],
        "infrastructure": [
          "all"
        ],
        "logs": [
          "all"
        ],
        "uptime": [
          "all"
        ]
      },
      "spaces": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 2

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Granting "dashboard only" access to only the Marketing space.

PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role
{
  "metadata" : {
    "version" : 1
  },
  "elasticsearch": {
    "cluster" : [ ],
    "indices" : [ ]
  },
  "kibana": [
    {
      "base": [],
      "feature": {
        "dashboard": ["read"]
      },
      "spaces": [
        "marketing"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 3

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Granting full access to all features in the Default space.

PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role
{
  "metadata" : {
    "version" : 1
  },
  "elasticsearch": {
    "cluster" : [ ],
    "indices" : [ ]
  },
  "kibana": [
    {
      "base": ["all"],
      "feature": {
      },
      "spaces": [
        "default"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 4

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Granting different access to different spaces.

PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role
{
  "metadata" : {
    "version" : 1
  },
  "elasticsearch": {
    "cluster" : [ ],
    "indices" : [ ]
  },
  "kibana": [
    {
      "base": [],
      "feature": {
        "discover": ["all"],
        "dashboard": ["all"]
      },
      "spaces": [
        "default"
      ]
    },
    {
      "base": ["read"],
      "spaces": [
        "marketing",
        "sales"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example 5

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Granting access to both Kibana and Elasticsearch.

PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role
{
  "metadata" : {
    "version" : 1
  },
  "elasticsearch": {
    "cluster" : [ "all" ],
    "indices" : [ {
      "names" : [ "index1", "index2" ],
      "privileges" : [ "all" ],
      "field_security" : {
        "grant" : [ "title", "body" ]
      },
      "query" : "{\"match\": {\"title\": \"foo\"}}"
    } ]
  },
  "kibana": [
    {
      "base": ["all"],
      "feature": {
      },
      "spaces": [
        "default"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Response

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A successful call returns a response code of 204 and no response body.

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