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Manage access using folders or data sources

You can further customize access for alert rules by assigning permissions to individual folders or data sources, regardless of role assigned.

Note

You can’t use folders to customize access to notification resources.

Details of how role access can combine with folder permissions for Grafana Alerting are below.

RoleFolderAccess
Admin-Write access to alert rules in all folders.
Editor-Write access to alert rules in all folders.
ViewerAdminWrite access to alert rules only in the folders where the Admin permission is added.
ViewerEditWrite access to alert rules only in the folders where the Edit permission is added.
ViewerViewRead access to alert rules in all folders.

Folder permissions

To manage folder permissions, complete the following steps.

  1. In the left-side menu, click Dashboards.
  2. Choose the folder you want to add permissions for.

Note

It doesn’t matter which tab you’re on (Dashboards, Panels, or Alert rules); the folder permission you set applies to all.
  1. Click Manage permissions from the Folder actions menu.
  2. Update or add permissions as required.

Data source permissions

By default, users with the basic roles Admin, Editor, and Viewer roles have query access to data sources for Grafana Alerting.

If you used fixed roles or custom roles, you need to update data source permissions.

Alternatively, an admin can assign the role Datasource Reader, which grants the user access to all data sources.

To manage data source permissions, complete the following steps.

  1. In the left-side menu, click Connections > Data sources.
  2. Click the data source you want to change the permissions for.
  3. Click the Permissions tab.
  4. In the Permission column, update the permission or remove it by clicking X.