Logstash can't index into ES: `action [indices:admin/auto_create] is unauthorized for user`

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I created a user demoTester with the following roles:

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-users useradd demoTester -p demoTester -r kibana_admin,logstash_admin,beats_admin,logstash_system,monitoring_user,watcher_admin,editor,machine_learning_admin

When I run my deployment script, I can see that Logstash is listening on port 5044 and the logs are being sent, but the user demoTester can't index into ES. I have read the documentation on how to create privileges, but the examples are not clear to me. I am not creating via the Kibana UI, I am automating everything through a script.

error=>{"type"=>"security_exception", "reason"=>"action [indices:admin/auto_create] is unauthorized for user [demotester] with roles [watcher_admin,editor,monitoring_user,logstash_system,beats_admin,machine_learning_admin,kibana_admin,logstash_admin] on indices [demo-2022.10.27], this action is granted by the index privileges [auto_configure,create_index,manage,all]"}}

Here's my logstash conf file:


input {
  beats {
    port => 5044
  }
}
output {
    elasticsearch {
      ssl => true
      ssl_certificate_verification => true
      cacert => '/etc/logstash/certs/http_ca.crt'
      user => demoTester
      password => demoTester
      hosts => ["https://10.0.8.19:9200"]
      index =>"demo-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
    }
}
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Haven't understood how to add privileges. But as a temporary fix. I made the user superuser.

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-users useradd demoTester -p demoTester -r superuser
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