# What is "indices:admin/get" allowing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-indices-admin-get-allowing/165804>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-indices-admin-get-allowing/165804 "2019-01-25T16:00:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![hage42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@hage42](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hage42)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-indices-admin-get-allowing/165804/1 "2019-01-25T16:00:36Z")

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When i am trying to run timelion inside kibana with a restricted user, the user needs to have the permission:  
indices:admin/get  
on the indices that i want to run timelion against and on the .kibana-index. Why is that and what is this permission exactly allowing the user to do?  
(in general, it would be great to have an overview of all of the available elasticsearch-actions (i guess it is called like that, right?) and what they are doing. Unfortunately, not all of them are having a speaking name as "indices:admin/settings/update" or "cluster:monitor/health". Is something like that existing? I haven't found it, yet)

thx

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-indices-admin-get-allowing/165804/2 "2019-01-25T16:11:57Z")

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This permission allows the user to obtain information about the index including its mappings, aliases and settings: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-get-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-get-index.html)

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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:** [February 22, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-indices-admin-get-allowing/165804/3 "2019-02-22T16:12:12Z")

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