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Add Kibana application privileges to the reserved role docs (#354)
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Users who create roles that are similar to the reserved roles
need to know about these.

The privileges were added to the reserved roles in
elastic/elasticsearch#40651 and elastic/elasticsearch#42757

Co-Authored-By: Lisa Cawley <[email protected]>
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droberts195 and lcawl committed Jun 5, 2019
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[[built-in-roles-data-frame-transforms-admin]] `data_frame_transforms_admin` ::
Grants `manage_data_frame_transforms` cluster privileges, which enable you to
manage data frames.
manage data frame transforms. This role also includes all
{kibana-ref}/kibana-privileges.html[Kibana privileges] for the {ml-features}.

[[built-in-roles-data-frame-transforms-user]] `data_frame_transforms_user` ::
Grants `monitor_data_fram_transforms` cluster privileges, which enable you to
use data frames.
use data frame transforms. This role also includes all
{kibana-ref}/kibana-privileges.html[Kibana privileges] for the {ml-features}.

[[built-in-roles-ingest-user]] `ingest_admin` ::
Grants access to manage *all* index templates and *all* ingest pipeline configurations.
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[[built-in-roles-ml-admin]] `machine_learning_admin`::
Grants `manage_ml` cluster privileges, read access to `.ml-anomalies*`,
`.ml-notifications*`, `.ml-state*`, `.ml-meta*` indices and write access to
`.ml-annotations*` indices.
`.ml-annotations*` indices. This role also includes all
{kibana-ref}/kibana-privileges.html[Kibana privileges] for the {ml-features}.

[[built-in-roles-ml-user]] `machine_learning_user`::
Grants the minimum privileges required to view {ml} configuration,
status, and work with results. This role grants `monitor_ml` cluster privileges,
read access to the `.ml-notifications` and `.ml-anomalies*` indices
(which store {ml} results), and write access to `.ml-annotations*` indices.
This role also includes all {kibana-ref}/kibana-privileges.html[Kibana privileges] for the {ml-features}.

[[built-in-roles-monitoring-user]] `monitoring_user`::
Grants the minimum privileges required for any user of {monitoring} other than those
required to use {kib}. This role grants access to the monitoring indices and grants
privileges necessary for reading basic cluster information. Monitoring users should
also be assigned the `kibana_user` role.
privileges necessary for reading basic cluster information. This role also includes
all {kibana-ref}/kibana-privileges.html[Kibana privileges] for the {stack-monitor-features}.
Monitoring users should also be assigned the `kibana_user` role.

[[built-in-roles-remote-monitoring-agent]] `remote_monitoring_agent`::
Grants the minimum privileges required to write data into the monitoring indices
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