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Securing Beats docs unclear for Elastic Cloud users #8913

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User in above discuss link faced some trouble when following the docs for Securing Beats.

Docs for step 4, Set the password for the beats_system built-in user, make reference to a beats_system user that doesn't exist in Elastic Cloud. (A role beats_system exists, though).

User faced further problems due to this:

2018-11-02T18:03:21.874Z        ERROR   pipeline/output.go:121  Failed to publish 
events: 403 Forbidden: {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception",
"reason":"action [cluster:admin/xpack/monitoring/bulk] is unauthorized for user
 [filebeat]"}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"action 
[cluster:admin/xpack/monitoring/bulk] is unauthorized for user [filebeat]"},
"status":403}

This problem went away when adding the role beats_system to the user that was used by Filebeat.

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