Summary

In conclusion, roles, users, and authentication methods all together secure a Splunk Enterprise instance. We started by gaining an understanding of users. They are the primary entities that do the required actions and executions on the Splunk platform. Users can be either administrators (admins) or general users who will be created by the admin. We went through the creation of a new user through the Splunk Web interface and the Splunk CLI. Afterward, we looked into what a role has to offer for a user.

Splunk follows the RBAC approach. Roles are created and managed by system administrators. Splunk offers default roles, and they can be extended by inheriting them through the new role creation process.

Assigning a user to a specific role is a commonly used solution in Splunk to restrict their access to certain actions, limit their consumption of resources, and control their access to indexes. Roles in Splunk allow for fine-grained permissions management, ensuring that users...