Manage access using folders or data sources
You can extend the access provided by a role to alert rules and rule-specific silences by assigning permissions to individual folders or data sources.
Note
Data source query permissions are required to create or modify an alert rule using that data source.
This allows different users, teams, or service accounts to have customized access to modify or silence alert rules in specific folders or using specific data sources.
Details on the additional access provided by folder permissions are below.
Some example combinations:
Note
You can’t use folders to customize access to notification resources.
Folder permissions
To manage folder permissions, complete the following steps.
- In the left-side menu, click Dashboards.
- 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.
- Click Manage permissions from the Folder actions menu.
- 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 administrator can assign the role Datasource Reader, which grants the user access to all data sources.
To manage data source permissions, complete the following steps.
- In the left-side menu, click Connections > Data sources.
- Click the data source you want to change the permissions for.
- Click the Permissions tab.
- In the Permission column, update the permission, or remove it by clicking X.