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How to access only dashboard tab to monitor graphs in kibana4 using Shield?


How can i create a role for a user to access only dashboard tab to monitoring the graphs in kibana4 using shield?

The role must satisfy the below conditions

-The role must not have access to Discover tab,Visualize Tab and Settings tab. -The role must have access to dashboard tab only.

Is this possible in Kibana4 with shield


Solution

  • According to this article, it is not currently possible with Shield:

    Kibana and Shield do not currently provide a way to control which users can load which dashboards.

    There is the issue #4453 that you might want to follow, if you're interested in how they will be solving this (and you can +1 it, too)

    You can still protect your dashboard using either Apache or Nginx. See this discussion and this one.