# Kibana - Read Only user has problem to see the data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-read-only-user-has-problem-to-see-the-data/225030>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-read-only-user-has-problem-to-see-the-data/225030 "2020-03-25T17:01:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![RamyaGowda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramyagowda/32/27440_2.png) [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-read-only-user-has-problem-to-see-the-data/225030/1 "2020-03-25T17:01:01Z")

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Hello Team,

I have created one user, he has access to one of the index , privileges are **read** and **view\_index\_metadata**. Once user login Kibana is popping up with below error

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/7/f732bfa937a748f28bc05792b388ac529ace93dc.png)

What is missing here ! i have done same thing to create read-only users earlier, it was working just fine!! Not sure what's going wrong this time. Need your help!

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-read-only-user-has-problem-to-see-the-data/225030/2 "2020-03-26T09:41:42Z")

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Hi @RamyaGowda,

it seems like the user is running the problem described here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/46124](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/46124)

Make sure there is a default index pattern configured for the space the user can access.

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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:** [April 23, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-read-only-user-has-problem-to-see-the-data/225030/3 "2020-04-23T09:41:50Z")

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