Add user.roles to the authorization audit log#5583
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Emit the roles the principal held as the ECS user.roles array on each authorization decision, so SIEMs can facet and alert on roles instead of parsing them out of the free-text reason. Omitted when the principal has no roles. Additive output change; first shipped in 6.18.0 without it, so targets the next patch (6.18.1) or minor (6.19.0).
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Add user.roles to the authorization audit log Emit the roles the principal held as the ECS user.roles array on each authorization decision, so SIEMs can facet and alert on roles instead of parsing them out of the free-text reason. Omitted when the principal has no roles.
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* Add improvements to authorization settings * Add ecs.version to the audit log ECS documents (#5584) The authorization and message-action audit documents omitted the ecs.version field. ECS-consuming pipelines (Elasticsearch's built-in logs-*-* index template, Elastic Security, other SIEMs) use ecs.version to select the matching field mappings, so a conformant document should declare it. Both streams now emit "ecs": { "version": "8.11.0" } — the latest ECS schema release, whose event.category/type/outcome and user.* fields are what these documents already use. Additive, non-breaking output change. First shipped in 6.18.0 without the field, so this targets the next patch (6.18.1) or minor (6.19.0). ECS version field: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-ecs.html event.type allowed values (allowed/denied/change/deletion): https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-allowed-values-event-type.html ECS releases: https://github.com/elastic/ecs/releases * Add user.roles to the authorization audit log (#5583) Add user.roles to the authorization audit log Emit the roles the principal held as the ECS user.roles array on each authorization decision, so SIEMs can facet and alert on roles instead of parsing them out of the free-text reason. Omitted when the principal has no roles. * Add improvements to authorization settings (#5588) --------- Co-authored-by: Ramon Smits <ramon.smits@gmail.com>
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Fixes #5590
Emits the roles the principal held as the ECS
user.rolesarray on each authorization decision, so SIEMs can facet and alert on roles instead of parsing the free-textreason. Omitted when the principal has no roles.