Role based access control for Kibana and Elastic Search

Question

I am new to Elastic and Kibana. Using Version 6.2.4. I have installed the ELK stack with the X-pack enabled on it. Now I have Kibana working on port 5601 with authentication and elastic working on 9200 with authentication.

Here is what I want to achieve by Kibana:

Get visualisations for the data [I know this can be done]
Give different roles to different users
Based on role, restrict the user access for data
Example users will be Admin, user and anonymous user

Can this be done using Kibana? If No, what wrong I am expecting?

If yes, then is this the correct way, please check below:

curl -XPOST -u elastic 'localhost:9200/_xpack/security/user/ingestadmin' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "password" : "tudip123",
  "full_name" : "Ingest Admin",
  "email" : "ingest.admin@xyz.com",
  "roles" : [ "ingest_admin" ]
}'

@Mysterion It is working but I want to know if my approach is correct? — Harshal Yeole, May 16 '18 at 13:59
@Mysterion I have posted few questions above, please answer those... — Harshal Yeole, May 16 '18 at 14:40

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '18 at 15:20

First of all, thanks, stackoverflow.com

I searched the web and got all my answers:

Questions:

Get visualizations for the data

Give different roles to different users

Based on the role, restrict the user access to data

Example users will be Admin, user and anonymous user

Can this be done using Kibana?

Answer:

Yes it can be done

If yes, then is this the correct way, please check below:

>>The way stated to create the user and role above in the question is correct, in fact, Kibana provides you the UI to do it in an easy way. [Management tab]

Conclusion:

We can add role-based access to the data using roles and privileges in Kibana. Below are few links that helped me:

You can get next link from the page itself. (Check the right bottom corner)

Role based access control for Kibana and Elastic Search

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