Users and permissions

In Grafana, you can manage users at different levels. Each of these levels determines the tasks and permissions that a user can have.

You can assign different roles to users, allowing them to access the required resources.

There are four levels of permission management. Let’s see what they are.

Server level

The server level is the widest. It includes all the users that belong to the current instance of Grafana.

Users that have the Grafana Admin option set to Yes can manage all the organizations and user accounts in the server.

Organization level

Organizations are groups of users on a specific server.

You can create as many organizations as you need and assign users to one or more of them.

Besides users, within an organization, you can use data sources, plugins, and dashboards that are specific to that organization. So, you can have an organization with an InfluxDB database and another with a SQL database. None of these organizations...