Applications UI annotation user

By default, the viewer and editor built-in roles provide read access to Observability annotations. You only need to create an annotation user to write to the annotations index (xpack.observability.annotations.index).

Annotation useredit

View deployment annotations in the Applications UI.

Create a new role, named something like annotation_user, and assign the following privileges:

Type	Privilege	Purpose
Index	`read` on `{ANNOTATION_INDEX}`¹	Read-only access to the observability annotation index
Index	`view_index_metadata` on `{ANNOTATION_INDEX}`¹	Read-only access to observability annotation index metadata

¹ {ANNOTATION_INDEX} should be the index name you’ve defined in xpack.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 Applications UI

Annotation APIedit

See Create an API user.

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