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Elastic Security API

Roles, users, API keys, and access control.

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GET /_security/role/{name} Get a security role #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Elasticsearch REST Security API
  description: REST APIs for the Elasticsearch search and analytics engine. Provides operations for indexing documents, searching, managing indices, mappings, aliases, security, snapshots, and cluster administration. Used both by the Kibana UI and directly by client applications to ingest, search, and analyze data at scale.
  version: '9.0'
  contact:
    name: Elastic
    url: https://www.elastic.co
  license:
    name: Elastic License 2.0
    url: https://www.elastic.co/licensing/elastic-license
servers:
- url: https://{deployment}.es.{region}.cloud.es.io:9243
  description: Elastic Cloud deployment
  variables:
    deployment:
      default: my-deployment
      description: Deployment identifier
    region:
      default: us-east-1
      description: Cloud region
- url: http://localhost:9200
  description: Local Elasticsearch
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Security
  description: Roles, users, API keys, and access control.
paths:
  /_security/role/{name}:
    get:
      operationId: getRole
      summary: Get a security role
      description: Returns the named role definition. Roles can be assigned to users and API keys to grant cluster, index, and application privileges.
      tags:
      - Security
      parameters:
      - name: name
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Role response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
        '404':
          description: Not found
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: ApiKey base64-encoded id:api_key
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
externalDocs:
  description: Elasticsearch REST API Reference
  url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch