User creation - View only Dashboards

Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Hello,

What I want to do is the following:

  • Create a new User which can only see Dashboards (read only).
  • Only Dashboards in the menu.
  • Only Dashboards in the GUI.
  • I have 2 indexes and 2 Dashboards.

I’ve been trying for 2 months reading forums and trying my self, but nothing yet.

Multi-tenancy = False
Opendistro version: 1.9.0

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Hello @geopat,

It is something like this How to hide Kibana menu for user? ?

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I did the exact steps in this forum and nothing works

4

Probably, yes. Because in the current OD model there is not way to limit users to the certain panels like Discovery, Visualisations, Dashboards, etc… And a new model is still in progress.

Did you try a custom plugin mentioned in the thread above?

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@geopat I have been able to create read-only Kibana users but there were two “tricks” to getting it to work. First, you need to grant the read-only user the Cluster permissions of “cluster_composite_ops_ro”. This is in addition to any other action group/permissions you might need (e.g. to access a particular index).

Second, you need to set the do_not_fail_on_forbidden property to “true” in the Elasticsearch config.yml file. If this is NOT set to “true”, any attempt to access indexes via dashboards will result in ERROR messages.

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Thanks for your time!

This is not working since I’m not hiding the options to the user.
Also dashboards are still empty not showing.

I cant understand why this is so difficult since Opendistro is hardened for security.
This is a major issue, hide and unhide items it’s a must!