# Fine grained access control on specific watchers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fine-grained-access-control-on-specific-watchers/247986>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security, elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [September 9, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fine-grained-access-control-on-specific-watchers/247986 "2020-09-09T09:49:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![iorfix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc348/32.png) [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fine-grained-access-control-on-specific-watchers/247986/1 "2020-09-09T09:49:51Z")

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Hi,  
I want different users to create and manage their own watchers.  
A user could edit / create / delete / ack only the watchers he created.

I noted watcher privileges are of type "cluster", so basically each watcher admin could edit / delete watchers created by other users.  
Is there a way to restrict it?

Moreover, is it possible to associate "ack" permissions to specific users and to specific watchers, but not create/delete permissions?  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fine-grained-access-control-on-specific-watchers/247986/2 "2020-09-16T10:00:26Z")

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Hey,

the security model right now does not allow for this. You either have watcher admin privileges to do everything or not, but there is nothing in between.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![iorfix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc348/32.png) [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fine-grained-access-control-on-specific-watchers/247986/3 "2020-09-16T12:06:51Z")

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thank you @spinscale. Do you have plan to add this feature in later versions? I haven't found any related open issue.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fine-grained-access-control-on-specific-watchers/247986/4 "2020-10-14T12:06:55Z")

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