Understanding key permission concepts

Before we can delve into the specifics of adding users or setting their permissions, we need to cover some fundamental security concepts that are built into Grafana. Once you understand the terminology, it will be easier to piece together how these concepts interact to produce a coherent framework to govern user access.

Organizations

You may not have been aware of it, but for the entire time we’ve been learning about Grafana, we’ve been working inside an entity that Grafana refers to as an organization. Much like our universe is a single entity unto itself, this default organization, or org for short, can have its own teams, data sources, dashboards, dashboard folders, and so on. These types of resources cannot be accessed from or shared with any organization. Grafana lets you create as many organizations as you want, and while each one is completely independent of the others, users can be members of more than one organization...