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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 13:43:18 -0700
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# Backport

This will backport the following commits from `main` to `8.8`:
- [[DOCS] Clarify required privileges to create CSV reports when using
index aliases (#170524)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/170524)

<!--- Backport version: 8.9.8 -->

### Questions ?
Please refer to the [Backport tool
documentation](https://github.com/sqren/backport)

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Co-authored-by: Fabio Busatto <52658645+bytebilly@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/setup/configuring-reporting.asciidoc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/setup/configuring-reporting.asciidoc b/docs/setup/configuring-reporting.asciidoc
index 3cb20866d7753..903f6fdfb5afd 100644
--- a/docs/setup/configuring-reporting.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/setup/configuring-reporting.asciidoc
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ NOTE: If you use the default settings, you can still create a custom role that g
 +
 Access to data is an index-level privilege. For each index that contains the data you want to include in reports, add a line, then give each index `read` and `view_index_metadata` privileges.
 +
+NOTE: If you use index aliases, you must also grant `read` and `view_index_metadata` privileges to underlying indices to generate CSV reports.
++
 For more information, refer to {ref}/security-privileges.html[Security privileges].
 
 . Add the {kib} privileges.