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Applications UI storage explorer user

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Applications UI storage explorer user
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Storage Explorer useredit

View the Storage Explorer in the Applications UI.

  1. Create a new role, named something like storage-explorer_user, and assign the following privileges:

    Type Privilege Purpose

    Cluster

    monitor

    Monitor the disk space used by APM data streams

    Index

    monitor on logs-apm*

    Monitor access to logs-apm* for storage explorer

    Index

    monitor on metrics-apm*

    Monitor access to metrics-apm* for storage explorer

    Index

    monitor on traces-apm*

    Monitor access to traces-apm* for storage explorer
  2. Assign the storage-explorer_user created previously, and the roles and privileges necessary to create a full or partial APM reader to any users that need to view Storage Explorer in the Applications UI.
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