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Documents built-in `beats_admin` role
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Expand Up @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ change between releases.
NOTE: This role does not provide access to the logstash indices and is not
suitable for use within a Logstash pipeline.

[[built-in-roles-beats-admin]] `beats_admin` ::
Grants access to the `.management-beats` index for managing configurations.
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Though this matches the logstash_admin description, my two cents is that it might be clearer to say something like this:
"... index, which contains configuration information for the Beats".


[[built-in-roles-beats-system]] `beats_system` ::
Grants access necessary for the Beats system user to send system-level data
(such as monitoring) to {es}.
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