# Kibana roles API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-roles-api/  
**Provider:** Kibana — https://apis.io/providers/kibana/  
**Base URL:** https://localhost:5601/api  
**Documentation:** https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html

Kibana roles API is one of 60 APIs that [Kibana](https://apis.io/providers/kibana/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Roles. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

Manage the roles that grant Elasticsearch and Kibana privileges.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kibana/refs/heads/main/openapi/kibana-roles-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html
- **Authentication** — https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api-authentication.html

## Other Kibana APIs (12)

- [Kibana Actions API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-actions-api/)
- [Kibana agent builder API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-agent-builder-api/)
- [Kibana alerting API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-alerting-api/)
- [Kibana APM agent configuration API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-agent-configuration-api/)
- [Kibana APM agent keys API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-agent-keys-api/)
- [Kibana APM annotations API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-annotations-api/)
- [Kibana APM server schema API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-server-schema-api/)
- [Kibana APM sourcemaps API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-apm-sourcemaps-api/)
- [Kibana cases API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-cases-api/)
- [Kibana connectors API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-connectors-api/)
- [Kibana Data streams API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-data-streams-api/)
- [Kibana data views API](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-data-views-api/)

## Tags

Roles

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/kibana/kibana-roles-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/kibana/.