I've been struggling trying to set up a read-only user for Kibana. It seems like I have it working now, with the exception of an error popping up in the Discover app. It seems to be exactly the issue listed here: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54122 where the defaultIndex cannot be set becau…

Hello, I was looking for a way to mostly set this up for my users before they login. I found a few API calls that can set the default index-pattern for my Space (users). I'll use that for automation: Fetch index-pattern unique id curl -s -u elastic:password -XGET "https://kibana_host:5601/s/users/…

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mattkime (Matthew Kime) August 25, 2020, 6:26pm 2

Hello @cotjoey -

Its attempting to set the defaultIndex because none is set. If you log in as a user with sufficient privileges it will be set and the error will no longer appear.

Getting unauthorized when doing GET on indices with a read-only user

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