Hi I created an x-pack user with only access to index C (and role kibana_user). When the user logs in in Kibana and opens Discover, he can see all indices A, B, C and D (but can see only logs from index C). How can I (completely) hide indices A, B and D? I am using Elasticsearch & Kibana 5.1.1 T…

Hi @maenu , that is unfortunately not supported by Kibana's current authentication model. Many customers get around that by running multiple Kibana instances with separate Kibana indices (setting 'kibana.index`) backed by the same Elasticsearch cluster. Improving that, though, is definitely somethin…

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maenu January 10, 2017, 6:38pm 3

Hi @weltenwort
Thanks for your answer. I will try that workaround.

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