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Learn Grafana 7.0

You're reading from   Learn Grafana 7.0 A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826581
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Salituro Eric Salituro
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Grafana
2. Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. A Tour of the Grafana Interface 4. An Introduction to the Graph Panel 5. Real-World Grafana
6. Connecting Grafana to a Data Source 7. Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel 8. Visualization Panels in Grafana 9. Creating Your First Dashboard 10. Working with Advanced Dashboard Features 11. Grafana Alerting 12. Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki 13. Managing Grafana
14. Organizing Dashboards 15. Managing Permissions for Users and Teams 16. Authentication with External Services 17. Cloud Monitoring 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Administering users and organizations

There are two significant tasks that can only be performed by a user with the Super Admin role: management of users and management of organizations. When you logged into your brand new Grafana site as admin, you were 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 view, 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 applied 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 a number of users to add to your site and you need...

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