# Metricbeat 7.8 elasticsearch monitoring permissions Issue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-8-elasticsearch-monitoring-permissions-issue/242807
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-security, metricbeat
**Created:** [July 27, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-8-elasticsearch-monitoring-permissions-issue/242807 "2020-07-27T20:37:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Elk\_huh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elk_huh)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-8-elasticsearch-monitoring-permissions-issue/242807/1 "2020-07-27T20:37:53Z")
I am having monitoring data permissions issue using metricbeat to send monitoring data
The current Roles / Privlages are as below. when i make the account a superuser , Elasticsearch monitoring data goes to the monitoring node
What am i missing here
Current Roles:
monitoring\_user
stack\_monitor
remote\_monitoring\_collector
remote\_monitoring\_agent
beats\_system
Privileges:
monitor
manage\_ilm
read\_ilm
manage
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### Author:  [@Elk\_huh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elk_huh)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-8-elasticsearch-monitoring-permissions-issue/242807/2 "2020-07-27T20:40:35Z")
sending this data
- module: elasticsearch
metricsets:
- ccr
- cluster\_stats
- index
- index\_recovery
- index\_summary
- ml\_job
- node\_stats
- shard
- enrich
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-8-elasticsearch-monitoring-permissions-issue/242807/3 "2020-08-24T22:50:25Z")
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