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Grafana Enterprise

Fine-grained access control

Permissions

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Permissions

A permission is an action and a scope. When creating a fine-grained access control, consider what specific action a user should be allowed to perform, and on what resources (its scope).

To grant permissions to a user, you create a built-in role assignment to map a role to a built-in role. A built-in role assignment modifies to one of the existing built-in roles in Grafana (Viewer, Editor, Admin). For more information, refer to Built-in role assignments.

To learn more about which permissions are used for which resources, refer to Resources with fine-grained permissions.

action: The specific action on a resource defines what a user is allowed to perform if they have permission with the relevant action assigned to it.
scope: The scope describes where an action can be performed, such as reading a specific user profile. In such case, a permission is associated with the scope users:<userId> to the relevant role.

Action definitions

The following list contains fine-grained access control actions.

Actions	Applicable scopes	Descriptions
`roles:list`	`roles:*`	List available roles without permissions.
`roles:read`	`roles:*`	Read a specific role with it’s permissions.
`roles:write`	`permissions:delegate`	Create or update a custom role.
`roles:delete`	`permissions:delegate`	Delete a custom role.
`roles.builtin:list`	`roles:*`	List built-in role assignments.
`roles.builtin:add`	`permissions:delegate`	Create a built-in role assignment.
`roles.builtin:remove`	`permissions:delegate`	Delete a built-in role assignment.
`reports.admin:create`	`reports:*`	Create reports.
`reports.admin:write`	`reports:*`	Update reports.
`reports:delete`	`reports:*`	Delete reports.
`reports:read`	`reports:*`	List all available reports or get a specific report.
`reports:send`	`reports:*`	Send a report email.
`reports.settings:write`	n/a	Update report settings.
`reports.settings:read`	n/a	Read report settings.
`provisioning:reload`	`services:accesscontrol`	Reload provisioning files.
`users:read`	`global:users:*`	Read or search user profiles.
`users:write`	`global:users:*`	Update a user’s profile.
`users.teams:read`	`global:users:*`	Read a user’s teams.
`users.authtoken:list`	`global:users:*`	List authentication tokens that are assigned to a user.
`users.authtoken:update`	`global:users:*`	Update authentication tokens that are assigned to a user.
`users.password:update`	`global:users:*`	Update a user’s password.
`users:delete`	`global:users:*`	Delete a user.
`users:create`	n/a	Create a user.
`users:enable`	`global:users:*`	Enable a user.
`users:disable`	`global:users:*`	Disable a user.
`users.permissions:update`	`global:users:*`	Update a user’s organization-level permissions.
`users:logout`	`global:users:*`	Log out a user.
`users.quotas:list`	`global:users:*`	List a user’s quotas.
`users.quotas:update`	`global:users:*`	Update a user’s quotas.
`org.users.read`	`users:*`	Get user profiles within an organization.
`org.users.add`	`users:*`	Add a user to an organization.
`org.users.remove`	`users:*`	Remove a user from an organization.
`org.users.role:update`	`users:*`	Update the organization role (`Viewer`, `Editor`, `Admin`) for an organization.
`ldap.user:read`	n/a	Get a user via LDAP.
`ldap.user:sync`	n/a	Sync a user via LDAP.
`ldap.status:read`	n/a	Verify the LDAP servers’ availability.
`ldap.config:reload`	n/a	Reload the LDAP configuration.
`status:accesscontrol`	`services:accesscontrol`	Get access-control enabled status.
`settings:read`	`settings:*` `settings:auth.saml:` `settings:auth.saml:enabled` (property level)	Read settings
`settings:write`	`settings:*` `settings:auth.saml:` `settings:auth.saml:enabled` (property level)	Update settings
`server.stats:read`	n/a	Read server stats
`datasources:explore`	n/a	Enable explore

Scope definitions

The following list contains fine-grained access control scopes.

Scopes	Descriptions
`roles:*`	Restrict an action to a set of roles. For example, `roles:*` matches any role, `roles:randomuid` matches only the role with UID `randomuid` and `roles:custom:reports:{editor,viewer}` matches both `custom:reports:editor` and `custom:reports:viewer` roles.
`permissions:delegate`	The scope is only applicable for roles associated with the Access Control itself and indicates that you can delegate your permissions only, or a subset of it, by creating a new role or making an assignment.
`reports:*`	Restrict an action to a set of reports. For example, `reports:*` matches any report and `reports:1` matches the report with id `1`.
`services:accesscontrol`	Restrict an action to target only the fine-grained access control service. For example, you can use this in conjunction with the `provisioning:reload` or the `status:accesscontrol` actions.
`global:users:*`	Restrict an action to a set of global users.
`users:*`	Restrict an action to a set of users from an organization.
`settings:**`	Restrict an action to a subset of settings. For example, `settings:*` matches all settings, `settings:auth.saml:` matches all SAML settings, and `settings:auth.saml:enabled` matches the enable property on the SAML settings.