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Get builtin privileges API

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Get builtin privileges API

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Retrieves the list of cluster privileges and index privileges that are available in this version of Elasticsearch.

Request

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GET /_security/privilege/_builtin

Prerequisites

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  • To use this API, you must have the read_security cluster privilege (or a greater privilege such as manage_security or all).

Description

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This API retrieves the set of cluster and index privilege names that are available in the version of Elasticsearch that is being queried.

To check whether a user has particular privileges, use the has privileges API.

Response body

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The response is an object with two fields:

cluster
(array of string) The list of cluster privileges that are understood by this version of Elasticsearch.
index
(array of string) The list of index privileges that are understood by this version of Elasticsearch.
remote_cluster
(array of string) The list of remote_cluster privileges that are understood by this version of Elasticsearch.

Examples

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The following example retrieves the names of all builtin privileges:

resp = client.security.get_builtin_privileges()
print(resp)
const response = await client.security.getBuiltinPrivileges();
console.log(response);
GET /_security/privilege/_builtin

A successful call returns an object with "cluster", "index", and "remote_cluster" fields.

{
  "cluster" : [
    "all",
    "cancel_task",
    "create_snapshot",
    "cross_cluster_replication",
    "cross_cluster_search",
    "delegate_pki",
    "grant_api_key",
    "manage",
    "manage_api_key",
    "manage_autoscaling",
    "manage_behavioral_analytics",
    "manage_ccr",
    "manage_connector",
    "manage_data_frame_transforms",
    "manage_data_stream_global_retention",
    "manage_enrich",
    "manage_ilm",
    "manage_index_templates",
    "manage_inference",
    "manage_ingest_pipelines",
    "manage_logstash_pipelines",
    "manage_ml",
    "manage_oidc",
    "manage_own_api_key",
    "manage_pipeline",
    "manage_rollup",
    "manage_saml",
    "manage_search_application",
    "manage_search_query_rules",
    "manage_search_synonyms",
    "manage_security",
    "manage_service_account",
    "manage_slm",
    "manage_token",
    "manage_transform",
    "manage_user_profile",
    "manage_watcher",
    "monitor",
    "monitor_connector",
    "monitor_data_frame_transforms",
    "monitor_data_stream_global_retention",
    "monitor_enrich",
    "monitor_inference",
    "monitor_ml",
    "monitor_rollup",
    "monitor_snapshot",
    "monitor_stats",
    "monitor_text_structure",
    "monitor_transform",
    "monitor_watcher",
    "none",
    "post_behavioral_analytics_event",
    "read_ccr",
    "read_connector_secrets",
    "read_fleet_secrets",
    "read_ilm",
    "read_pipeline",
    "read_security",
    "read_slm",
    "transport_client",
    "write_connector_secrets",
    "write_fleet_secrets"
  ],
  "index" : [
    "all",
    "auto_configure",
    "create",
    "create_doc",
    "create_index",
    "cross_cluster_replication",
    "cross_cluster_replication_internal",
    "delete",
    "delete_index",
    "index",
    "maintenance",
    "manage",
    "manage_data_stream_lifecycle",
    "manage_follow_index",
    "manage_ilm",
    "manage_leader_index",
    "monitor",
    "none",
    "read",
    "read_cross_cluster",
    "view_index_metadata",
    "write"
  ],
  "remote_cluster" : [
    "monitor_enrich",
    "monitor_stats"
  ]
}
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