Provide ability to associate backend role and security role during monitor create

[skkosuri-amzn]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Provide ability to associate backend role and security role during monitor create.

Currently, during monitor creation the user backend roles and security roles are resolved and associated with monitor. There is no option for the User to select which backend role and security role to get associated instead of all.

Describe the solution you'd like
Provide optional field to add backend role and security role in the POST _plugins/_alerting/monitors API. When these optional fields are provided, and these are present in resolved roles - use provided roles to associate with monitor.

[ryn9]

@skkosuri-amzn is this expected to make its way into the 1.3 release?

[brijos]

@ryn9, this isn't gong to make it into 1.3. We will update this issue when we know more about which release this will fall into.

[ryn9]

@brijos . thank you for letting me know. Please let me know if there is any additional information / context I can aide with.

[sevenval-admins]

Hi, any news here?

[ryn9]

@sevenval-admins - if you and folks you know are looking for this feature - please make sure they give is a thumbs up at the top.

[qreshi]

@lezzago Can we close this based on the PR linked above being merged in or is there any additional work to be done?

[lezzago]

We have updated the documentation and starting from 2.4, we support allowing to specify backend roles.