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Organization Roles

Users can be belong to one or more organizations. A user's organization membership is tied to a role that defines what the user is allowed to do in that organization.

Admin Role

Can do everything scoped to the organization. For example:

• Add & Edit data sources.
• Add & Edit organization users & teams.
• Configure App plugins & set org settings.

Editor Role

• Can create and modify dashboards & alert rules. This can be disabled on specific folders and dashboards.
• Cannot create or edit data sources nor invite new users.

This role can be tweaked via Grafana server setting editors_can_admin. If you set this to true users with Editor can also administrate dashboards, folders and teams they create. Useful for enabling self organizing teams.

Viewer Role

• View any dashboard. This can be disabled on specific folders and dashboards.
• Cannot create or edit dashboards nor data sources.

This role can be tweaked via Grafana server setting viewers_can_edit. If you set this to true users with Viewer can also make transient dashboard edits, meaning they can modify panels & queries but not save the changes (nor create new dashboards). Useful for public Grafana installations where you want anonymous users to be able to edit panels & queries but not save or create new dashboards.