Read-only Tribe nodes and Kibana

[bodgit]

I have multiple ES clusters in different datacenters fed by Logstash and I would like to use one or more tribe nodes in a central location federating across them so I can have a single Kibana instance to search with, (I understand from elastic/kibana#22 how this should work).

Disabling write access seems to make sense here except the problem of the kibana-int index which is the only index that needs to be writeable from the point of view of a Kibana user. It would be useful maybe to be able to disable writes globally to the tribes except for that particular tribe/index. At the moment I guess I have to run with writes enabled everywhere?

Although I can't help thinking the write access should possibly be enforced by the remote clusters rather than on each tribe node...

[bodgit]

Looks like #5501 goes most of the way to fixing this.

[ghost]

bodgit, I am facing a somewhat similar situation and would appreciate your help. I have a Tribe node as a central location with a central Kibana, but I am unable to save dashboards on the Kibana instance. Could you possibly take a look at my issue and tell me how you resolved this?

elastic/kibana#1347