Admin users receive 'no permissions' error when default Kibana query is run

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Upon query such as the default Kibana Dev Tools query below, users with /admin role receive a no permissions error.

  • This happens in an EFK instance with SearchGuard and there is a similar known bug.

GET _search
{
  "query": {

        "match_all": {}
      } 
}
  • Outputs something like:
 "error"
 "root_cause"..
 "type": "security_exception"
 "reason": "no permissions for [indices:data/read/search] and User [name=user, roles=[gen_kibana_.....]

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform 3.11

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