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...