- Observability: other versions:
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.14
- Get started
- Observability AI Assistant
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Self manage APM Server
- Data Model
- Features
- Navigate the APM UI
- Perform common tasks in the APM UI
- Configure APM agents with central config
- Control access to APM data
- Create an alert
- Create and upload source maps (RUM)
- Create custom links
- Filter data
- Find transaction latency and failure correlations
- Identify deployment details for APM agents
- Integrate with machine learning
- Explore mobile sessions with Discover
- Observe Lambda functions
- Query your data
- Storage Explorer
- Track deployments with annotations
- OpenTelemetry integration
- Manage storage
- Configure
- Advanced setup
- Secure communication
- Monitor
- APM Server API
- APM UI API
- Troubleshoot
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Log monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- AWS monitoring
- Azure monitoring
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Uptime monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Universal Profiling
- Alerting
- Service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Cases
- CI/CD observability
- Troubleshooting
- Fields reference
- Tutorials
APM UI central config user
editAPM UI central config user
editCentral configuration manager
editCentral configuration users need to be able to view, create, update, and delete APM agent configurations.
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Create a new role, named something like
central-config-manager, and assign the following privileges:Type Privilege Purpose Index
readonapm-agent-configurationRead-only access to
apm-agent-configurationdataIndex
view_index_metadataonapm-agent-configurationRead-only access to
apm-agent-configurationindex metadataIndex
readonlogs-apm*Read-only access to
logs-apm*dataIndex
view_index_metadataonlogs-apm*Read-only access to
logs-apm*index metadataIndex
readonmetrics-apm*Read-only access to
metrics-apm*dataIndex
view_index_metadataonmetrics-apm*Read-only access to
metrics-apm*index metadataIndex
readontraces-apm*Read-only access to
traces-apm*dataIndex
view_index_metadataontraces-apm*Read-only access to
traces-apm*index metadataType Privilege Purpose Index
readonapm-*Read-only access to
apm-*dataIndex
view_index_metadataonapm-*Read-only access to
apm-*index metadataUsing the deprecated APM Server binaries? Add the privileges under the Classic APM indices tab above.
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Assign the
central-config-managerrole created in the previous step, and the following Kibana feature privileges to anyone who needs to manage central configurations:Type Privilege Purpose Kibana
Allon the APM and User Experience featureAllow full use of the APM and User Experience apps
Central configuration reader
editIn some instances, you may wish to create a user that can only read central configurations, but not create, update, or delete them.
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Create a new role, named something like
central-config-reader, and assign the following privileges:Type Privilege Purpose Index
readonapm-agent-configurationRead-only access to
apm-agent-configurationdataIndex
view_index_metadataonapm-agent-configurationRead-only access to
apm-agent-configurationindex metadataIndex
readonlogs-apm*Read-only access to
logs-apm*dataIndex
view_index_metadataonlogs-apm*Read-only access to
logs-apm*index metadataIndex
readonmetrics-apm*Read-only access to
metrics-apm*dataIndex
view_index_metadataonmetrics-apm*Read-only access to
metrics-apm*index metadataIndex
readontraces-apm*Read-only access to
traces-apm*dataIndex
view_index_metadataontraces-apm*Read-only access to
traces-apm*index metadataType Privilege Purpose Index
readonapm-*Read-only access to
apm-*dataIndex
view_index_metadataonapm-*Read-only access to
apm-*index metadataUsing the deprecated APM Server binaries? Add the privileges under the Classic APM indices tab above.
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Assign the
central-config-readerrole created in the previous step, and the following Kibana feature privileges to anyone who needs to read central configurations:Type Privilege Purpose Kibana
readon the APM and User Experience featureAllow read access to the APM and User Experience apps
Central configuration API
editSee Create an API user.