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What's new from Grafana Labs
What's new from Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Authentication and authorization Breaking change
Release date: 2025-10-16

Change to creator permissions

Grafana now only gives users automatic Admin access when they create a dashboard or folder at the root level.

If a user creates a dashboard or folder inside another folder, Grafana will not add a direct Admin permission for that user on the new resource. Instead, access should come from the permissions on the containing folder.

To support team collaboration, set up a top-level folder for each team or shared workspace. Give the relevant team Admin access to that top-level folder. Also assign the team the fixed:teams:read fixed role so team members can share dashboards and folders with other teams.

For example, if Team A has Admin access to the top-level Team A folder, members of Team A can create and manage dashboards and subfolders inside it without Grafana adding separate creator-specific Admin permissions to every new item.


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