- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 7.10
- Quick start
- Set up
- Discover
- Dashboard
- Edit dashboards
- Explore dashboard data
- Create custom dashboard actions
- Share dashboards
- Tutorials
- Compare sales over time with Lens
- Create your first visualization with Vega-Lite
- Update Kibana filters from Vega
- Create time series visualizations with Timelion
- Timelion tutorial: Create visualizations with mathematical functions
- Create visualizations with conditional logic and tracking trends using Timelion
- Aggregation reference
- Vega reference
- Canvas
- Maps
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Observability
- APM
- Elastic Security
- Dev Tools
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- Fleet
- Reporting
- Alerting and Actions
- REST API
- Kibana plugins
- Accessibility
- Breaking Changes
- Release Notes
- Kibana 7.10.2
- Kibana 7.10.1
- Kibana 7.10.0
- Kibana 7.9.3
- Kibana 7.9.2
- Kibana 7.9.1
- Kibana 7.9.0
- Kibana 7.8.1
- Kibana 7.8.0
- Kibana 7.7.1
- Kibana 7.7.0
- Kibana 7.6.2
- Kibana 7.6.1
- Kibana 7.6.0
- Kibana 7.5.2
- Kibana 7.5.1
- Kibana 7.5.0
- Kibana 7.4.2
- Kibana 7.4.1
- Kibana 7.4.0
- Kibana 7.3.2
- Kibana 7.3.1
- Kibana 7.3.0
- Kibana 7.2.1
- Kibana 7.2.0
- Kibana 7.1.1
- Kibana 7.1.0
- Kibana 7.0.1
- Kibana 7.0.0
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 7.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha1
- Developer guide
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Kibana privileges
editKibana privileges
editKibana privileges grant users access to features within Kibana. Roles have privileges to determine whether users have write or read access.
Base privileges
editAssigning a base privilege grants access to all available features in Kibana (Discover, Visualize, Dashboard, and so on).
Assigning base privileges
editFrom the role management screen:

From the role management API:
PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role { "elasticsearch": { "cluster" : [ ], "indices" : [ ] }, "kibana": [ { "base": ["all"], "feature": {}, "spaces": ["marketing"] } ] }
Feature privileges
editAssigning a feature privilege grants access to a specific feature.
-
all
- Grants full read-write access.
-
read
- Grants read-only access.
Sub-feature privileges
editSome features allow for finer access control than the all
and read
privileges.
This additional level of control is available in the Gold subscription level and higher.
Assigning feature privileges
editFrom the role management screen:

From the role management API:
PUT /api/security/role/my_kibana_role { "elasticsearch": { "cluster" : [ ], "indices" : [ ] }, "kibana": [ { "base": [], "feature": { "visualize": ["all"], "dashboard": ["read", "url_create"] }, "spaces": ["marketing"] } ] }
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