- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 8.3
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Enterprise Search settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logging settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Search sessions settings
- Secure settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- URL drilldown settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Configure security
- Configure reporting
- Configure logging
- Configure monitoring
- Command line tools
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboard and visualizations
- Canvas
- Maps
- Build a map to compare metrics by country or region
- Track, visualize, and alert on assets in real time
- Map custom regions with reverse geocoding
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
- Plot big data
- Search geographic data
- Configure map settings
- Connect to Elastic Maps Service
- Import geospatial data
- Troubleshoot
- Reporting and sharing
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Alerting
- Observability
- APM
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- Dev Tools
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- REST API
- Get features API
- Kibana spaces APIs
- Kibana role management APIs
- User session management APIs
- Saved objects APIs
- Data views API
- Index patterns APIs
- Alerting APIs
- Action and connector APIs
- Cases APIs
- Import and export dashboard APIs
- Logstash configuration management APIs
- Machine learning APIs
- Short URLs APIs
- Get Task Manager health
- Upgrade assistant APIs
- Kibana plugins
- Troubleshooting
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- 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.
APM app annotation user
editAPM app annotation user
editBy default, the apm_user
built-in role provides access to Observability annotations.
You only need to create an annotation user if the default annotation index
defined in xpack.observability.annotations.index
has been customized.
Annotation user
editView deployment annotations in the APM app.
-
Create a new role, named something like
annotation_user
, and assign the following privileges:Type Privilege Purpose Index
read
on{ANNOTATION_INDEX}
1Read-only access to the observability annotation index
Index
view_index_metadata
on{ANNOTATION_INDEX}
1Read-only access to observability annotation index metadata
1
{ANNOTATION_INDEX}
should be the index name you’ve defined inxpack.observability.annotations.index
. -
Assign the
annotation_user
created previously, and the roles and privileges necessary to create a full or partial APM reader to any users that need to view annotations in the APM app
Annotation API
editSee Create an API user.
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