Setting permissions

While you can grant a role to every user for the purpose of ultimately restricting their access to your Grafana site, you also need the ability to determine what parts of the site are ultimately accessible to users with those different roles. Happily, Grafana allows users with admin privileges to specify access levels for dashboards and folders.

Setting organization roles

First off, let’s simply set the user’s organization role. It’s a straightforward process, and one that you probably followed when you first invited a user:

1. Go to Users under Administration in the main menu.
2. Select the Organization users tab.
3. Set a Role for the user in the dropdown. This is what the Users tab page might look like with a handful of users:

Figure 15.5 – The Organization users tab

Once we’ve set the role for the user, we can either allow the default roles to be applied to folders or choose whether...