Access role to view and edit Content Management on ES

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Updated:November 4, 2026

Document ID:SPLK056043

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Applicability

Splunk Cloud Admin Services - Splunk Cloud 1.0

Description

Users reports that several analysts who previously could access the Enterprise Security “Security Content” / content management page now receive the error “Fetch failed: v1/incidenttypes” when clicking any item, starting about 2–3 weeks ago.

Investigation

During the investigation, there was a test for the basic Roles and capabilities needed on Splunk ES to see and manage the dashboards inside the ES app.

Resolution

For this dashboard the needed capabilities are "schedule_search" and "edit_correlationsearches".

These capabilities are part of the ess_analyst role, also the ess_admi role is one that have to be added to the users role in order to be able to edit knowledge objects on the ES.

Revision History

Revision	Publish Date	Comments
1.0	04-Nov-2026	Initial Release

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