Kibana Xpack User roles

[Dhanashree (Dhanashree Zope)]

Hi,
Is there a way to create users and roles dynamically with the incoming data in kibana on the basis of field names ?
Or some specific file where i can add these users and roles apart from kibana UI.

[Yogesh_Gaikwad]

Hi @Dhanashree,

It depends what your ultimate goal is, your description of the problem statement is too vague.

Just from what I understood, you want to create users and roles dynamically based on some incoming data and then provide them access to Kibana UI.

For Authentication and Authorization with X-Pack, Kibana depends on Elasticsearch X-Pack configuration.
You can see more details here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/using-kibana-with-security.html

Users and roles are managed by Elasticseach and for this you would need x-pack plugin installed.
You can use following APIs to manager users and roles on Elasticsearch.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/security-api-users.html
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/security-api-roles.html

Where you do this, would depend on how the data is brought into Elasticsearch.

Please let us know more in detail if you need more information.

Regards,
Yogesh Gaikwad

[Dhanashree (Dhanashree Zope)]

Hi @Yogesh_Gaikwad
I am already using the xpack for creating users and roles.But my question is suppose i have a field a and i am getting live data so i will keep on getting different values for the field a. Now i want to create user and roles for a particular value of field a based on the live data how can i do that dynamically.

[Yogesh_Gaikwad]

Hi @Dhanashree,

I think this is what you want document level security:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/field-and-document-access-control.html#document-level-security
Please check your x-pack license for features as per https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions, you need Platinum/Enterprise license to have field level, document level security.

Regards,
Yogesh Gaikwad