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Learn Grafana 10.x

You're reading from   Learn Grafana 10.x A beginner's guide to practical data analytics, interactive dashboards, and observability

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231082
Length 542 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Eric Salituro Eric Salituro
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Started with Grafana
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Data Visualization with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Touring the Grafana Interface 4. Chapter 3: Diving into Grafana's Time Series Visualization 5. Part 2 – Real-World Grafana
6. Chapter 4: Connecting Grafana to a Prometheus Data Source 7. Chapter 5: Extracting and Visualizing Data with InfluxDB and Grafana 8. Chapter 6: Shaping Data with Grafana Transformations 9. Chapter 7: Surveying Key Grafana Visualizations 10. Chapter 8: Surveying Additional Grafana Visualizations 11. Chapter 9: Creating Insightful Dashboards 12. Chapter 10: Working with Advanced Dashboard Features and Elasticsearch 13. Chapter 11: Streaming Real-Time IoT Data from Telegraf Agent to Grafana Live 14. Chapter 12: Monitoring Data Streams with Grafana Alerts 15. Chapter 13: Exploring Log Data with Grafana’s Loki 16. Part 3 – Managing Grafana
17. Chapter 14: Organizing Dashboards and Folders 18. Chapter 15: Managing Permissions for Users, Teams, and Organizations 19. Chapter 16: Authenticating Grafana Logins Using LDAP or OAuth 2 Providers 20. Chapter 17: Cloud Monitoring AWS, Azure, and GCP 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Administering users and organizations

There are two major tasks that can only be performed by a user with the Super Admin role – the management of users and the management of organizations. When you logged into your brand-new Grafana site as admin, you were really logging in as a super admin, and as a super admin, you have the ability to create users and organizations. Managing users and organizations is accomplished through a special Server Admin page, which can only be accessed by super admins from the left sidebar.

First, let’s look at how to create new users. Previously, we discussed the idea that the only way to add new user accounts is to invite someone or (with a configuration change) allow users to add themselves. Those restrictions only apply to organizations and organizational Admins. As it turns out, there is yet another way – if you’re a Super Admin.

Managing users

If you have several users to add to your site and you need to assign...

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