Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
docs: add annotation user docs (#70265)
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
bmorelli25 authored Jul 6, 2020
1 parent 93bae22 commit 5b5aa70
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 2 changed files with 50 additions and 1 deletion.
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions docs/apm/api.asciidoc
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ allowing you to easily see how these events are impacting the performance of you

By default, annotations are stored in a newly created `observability-annotations` index.
The name of this index can be changed in your `config.yml` by editing `xpack.observability.annotations.index`.
If you change the default index name, you'll also need to <<apm-app-annotation-user-create,update your user privileges>> accordingly.

The following APIs are available:

Expand Down
50 changes: 49 additions & 1 deletion docs/apm/apm-app-users.asciidoc
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

:beat_default_index_prefix: apm
:beat_kib_app: APM app
:annotation_index: `observability-annotations`
:annotation_index: observability-annotations

++++
<titleabbrev>Users and privileges</titleabbrev>
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -102,6 +102,54 @@ Here are two examples:
*********************************** ***********************************
////

[role="xpack"]
[[apm-app-annotation-user-create]]
=== APM app annotation user

++++
<titleabbrev>Create an annotation user</titleabbrev>
++++

NOTE: By default, the `apm_user` built-in role provides access to Observability annotations.
You only need to create an annotation user if the default annotation index
defined in <<apm-settings-kb,`xpack.observability.annotations.index`>> has been customized.

[[apm-app-annotation-user]]
==== Annotation user

View deployment annotations in the APM app.

. Create a new role, named something like `annotation_user`,
and assign the following privileges:
+
[options="header"]
|====
|Type | Privilege | Purpose

|Index
|`read` on +\{ANNOTATION_INDEX\}+^1^
|Read-only access to the observability annotation index

|Index
|`view_index_metadata` on +\{ANNOTATION_INDEX\}+^1^
|Read-only access to observability annotation index metadata
|====
+
^1^ +\{ANNOTATION_INDEX\}+ should be the index name you've defined in
<<apm-settings-kb,`xpack.observability.annotations.index`>>.

. Assign the `annotation_user` created previously, and the built-in roles necessary to create
a <<apm-app-reader-full,full>> or <<apm-app-reader-partial,partial>> APM reader to any users that need to view annotations in the APM app

[[apm-app-annotation-api]]
==== Annotation API

See <<apm-app-api-user>>.

////
*********************************** ***********************************
////

[role="xpack"]
[[apm-app-central-config-user]]
=== APM app central config user
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 5b5aa70

Please sign in to comment.