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Version: 8.6

OpenSearch privileges

If you implement Camunda 8 with OpenSearch as a service provider, you must configure OpenSearch with the following permissions and default action groups in mind:

Action groups are a set of permissions. Permissions have the cluster|indices prefix; all others are action groups.

Cluster​

  • cluster_monitor - Necessary for health check.
  • cluster:admin/reindex/rethrottle - Necessary to archive and migrate indices.
  • cluster_manage_pipelines - Necessary to migrate indices.
  • manage_snapshots - Necessary to take backups.
  • indices:admin/index_template/put - Necessary to create and manage index schema on start up and migration.
  • indices:admin/index_template/get - Necessary to create and manage index schema on start up and migration.
  • indices:admin/index_template/delete - Necessary to create and manage index schema on start up and migration.
  • indices:data/read/scroll/clear - Necessary to search with paging.
  • cluster_manage_templates - Necessary to create and manage index schema on start up.
  • cluster_manage_index_templates - Necessary to create and manage index schema on start up.

Indices​

  • data_access - Necessary to query and read.
  • get - Necessary to read.
  • delete - Necessary to create, archive, and migrate data.
  • create_index - Necessary to create index schema and archive.
  • search - Necessary to query.
  • manage - Necessary to create index schema, archive, and migrate.

Index state management​

Add in the cluster section of permissions for using index state management (ISM):

  • cluster:admin/opendistro/ism/managedindex/add
  • cluster:admin/opendistro/ism/managedindex/change
  • cluster:admin/opendistro/ism/managedindex/remove
  • cluster:admin/opendistro/ism/policy/write
  • cluster:admin/opendistro/ism/policy/get
  • cluster:admin/opendistro/ism/policy/delete