Using built-in roles
As an essential aspect of any robust data management system, role-based access control (RBAC) in the Elastic Stack is pivotal for regulating access and ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of your data. Throughout this book, we have ingested various types of data into Elasticsearch, designed dashboards and visualizations, and configured machine learning jobs and alerts. Now, imagine you want to share this productive setup with friends or colleagues to showcase the Elastic Stack’s capabilities. It is essential to give them access to Kibana and your data without compromising or altering the existing configuration.
In this recipe, we will be looking at how you can take advantage of the built-in Elasticsearch roles to easily give access while maintaining a strong security posture.
Getting ready
Make sure you have completed the following recipes:
- Monitoring Apache HTTP logs and metrics using the Apache integration in Chapter 4
- Creating...
