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Users and Roles

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Users and Roles Users and Roles

Description

We add users to our Grafana system using several different methods such as,

  • Add User,
  • Invite User,
  • User Sign Up,
  • Anonymous users

We also set the various roles of our users and manage the various permissions of our dashboards to allow certain roles to view and/or edit.

Conflicting Permissions

Permissions are accumulative and precedence is not considered.

E.g., if you have a user named user1, and it has been given the Editor role in its profile settings, but a dashboard has specifically chosen user1 to have the View permission, then that user will still be able to edit.

If you want to deny a specific user, that is set at the organization level with the Editor role, from editing a specific dashboard, then you can remove the default Editor role from that dashboard.

Alternatively, you could initially create the user with the Viewer role, and then explicitly set it to have the Edit permission at the dashboard level.

Note

Note that making changes to permissions can take a minute before that permission is reflected in the end users UI.

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