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Reader role

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Reader role

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For users who need to view and create visualizations that access Synthetics data, provide read access. Two types of read access are outlined below:

  • General read access: For most users, you can use General read access, which grants read access to all Kibana apps and requires little configuration.
  • Limited read access: If you want to limit read access to the Synthetics app only, you can use Limited read access, which requires additional configuration.

General read access

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For users who only need to view results in Kibana, use the viewer built-in role.

Limited read access

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If you want to limit read access to the Synthetics app only, do not use the viewer built-in role.

Instead to you can create a reader role, called something like synthetics_reader_limited, and grant the following privileges:

Type Privilege Purpose

Index

synthetics-*: read

Read-only access to synthetics indices.

Index

.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-*: read

Read-only access to synthetics alert indices.

Kibana

Uptime/Synthetics: All

Access to the Synthetics app in Kibana.
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