Grant privileges and roles needed to read Filebeat data from Kibana

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Kibana users typically need to view dashboards and visualizations that contain Filebeat data. These users might also need to create and edit dashboards and visualizations.

To grant users the required privileges:

1. Create a reader role, called something like filebeat_reader, that has the following privilege:

   Type	Privilege	Purpose
   Index	read on filebeat-* indices	Read data indexed by Filebeat
   Spaces	Read or All on Dashboards, Visualize, and Discover	Allow the user to view, edit, and create dashboards, as well as browse data.
   Spaces	Read or All on Kibana Logs	Allow the use of Kibana Logs

2. Assign the reader role, along with the following built-in roles, to users who need to read Filebeat data:

   Role	Purpose
   monitoring_user	Allow users to monitor the health of Filebeat itself. Only assign this role to users who manage Filebeat.