grafana/docs/sources/auth/_index.md

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aliases:
  - /docs/grafana/latest/auth/
description: Authentication
title: Authentication
weight: 30
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# User Authentication Overview

Grafana provides many ways to authenticate users. Some authentication integrations also enable syncing user permissions and org memberships.

Here is a table showing all supported authentication providers and the features available for them. [Team sync]({{< relref "../enterprise/team-sync.md" >}}) and [active sync]({{< relref "../enterprise/enhanced_ldap.md#active-ldap-synchronization" >}}) are only available in Grafana Enterprise.

See also, [Grafana Authentication]({{< relref "grafana.md" >}}).

| Provider                                                                 | Support | Role mapping | Team sync<br> _(Enterprise only)_ | Active sync<br> _(Enterprise only)_ |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | :-----: | :----------: | :-------------------------------: | :---------------------------------: |
| [Auth Proxy]({{< relref "auth-proxy.md" >}})                             |  v2.1+  |      -       |               v6.3+               |                  -                  |
| [Azure AD OAuth]({{< relref "azuread.md" >}})                            |  v6.7+  |    v6.7+     |               v6.7+               |                  -                  |
| [Generic OAuth]({{< relref "generic-oauth.md" >}})                       |  v4.0+  |    v6.5+     |                 -                 |                  -                  |
| [GitHub OAuth]({{< relref "github.md" >}})                               |  v2.0+  |      -       |               v6.3+               |                  -                  |
| [GitLab OAuth]({{< relref "gitlab.md" >}})                               |  v5.3+  |      -       |               v6.4+               |                  -                  |
| [Google OAuth]({{< relref "google.md" >}})                               |  v2.0+  |      -       |                 -                 |                  -                  |
| [LDAP]({{< relref "ldap.md" >}})                                         |  v2.1+  |    v2.1+     |               v5.3+               |                v6.3+                |
| [Okta OAuth]({{< relref "okta.md" >}})                                   |  v7.0+  |    v7.0+     |               v7.0+               |                  -                  |
| [SAML]({{< relref "../enterprise/configure-saml/" >}}) (Enterprise only) |  v6.3+  |    v7.0+     |               v7.0+               |                  -                  |
Convert TOML front matter to YAML (#49690) Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> 2022-05-26 10:06:25 -05:00			`---`
			`aliases:`
			`- /docs/grafana/latest/auth/`
			`description: Authentication`
			`title: Authentication`
			`weight: 30`
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docs: updated 2018-09-06 05:11:56 -05:00
Docs: fixing links (#24757) 2020-05-15 16:33:37 -05:00			`# User Authentication Overview`

			`Grafana provides many ways to authenticate users. Some authentication integrations also enable syncing user permissions and org memberships.`

			`Here is a table showing all supported authentication providers and the features available for them. [Team sync]({{< relref "../enterprise/team-sync.md" >}}) and [active sync]({{< relref "../enterprise/enhanced_ldap.md#active-ldap-synchronization" >}}) are only available in Grafana Enterprise.`

Change metadata of doc topics (#27943) * Changes. to metadata in Manage users * changes to install section * Added titile * More changes. * Updated administration folder metadata, moved 2 files from installation folder. * Added links to Administration landing page, other metadata changes worked out. * Updated alerting section metadata. * Updated metadata of Auth section. Broke index and created separate Grafana Authentication section. * Added correct weight. * Updated metadata for the Best practices section. * Updated metadata in templates, broke Overview topic. * Updated subment Variable types metadata * Fixed yaml file and H1 description of Variables syntax topic. * Couple more metadata changes. * Added aliases files, as suggested by Diana. 2020-10-01 16:37:26 -05:00			`See also, [Grafana Authentication]({{< relref "grafana.md" >}}).`

Docs: combines all SAML topics into one topic (#49443) * combines all SAML topics * resolves merge conflicts * makes prettier 2022-05-27 07:42:51 -05:00			`\| Provider \| Support \| Role mapping \| Team sync<br> _(Enterprise only)_ \| Active sync<br> _(Enterprise only)_ \|`
			`\| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \| :-----: \| :----------: \| :-------------------------------: \| :---------------------------------: \|`
			`\| [Auth Proxy]({{< relref "auth-proxy.md" >}}) \| v2.1+ \| - \| v6.3+ \| - \|`
			`\| [Azure AD OAuth]({{< relref "azuread.md" >}}) \| v6.7+ \| v6.7+ \| v6.7+ \| - \|`
			`\| [Generic OAuth]({{< relref "generic-oauth.md" >}}) \| v4.0+ \| v6.5+ \| - \| - \|`
			`\| [GitHub OAuth]({{< relref "github.md" >}}) \| v2.0+ \| - \| v6.3+ \| - \|`
			`\| [GitLab OAuth]({{< relref "gitlab.md" >}}) \| v5.3+ \| - \| v6.4+ \| - \|`
			`\| [Google OAuth]({{< relref "google.md" >}}) \| v2.0+ \| - \| - \| - \|`
			`\| [LDAP]({{< relref "ldap.md" >}}) \| v2.1+ \| v2.1+ \| v5.3+ \| v6.3+ \|`
			`\| [Okta OAuth]({{< relref "okta.md" >}}) \| v7.0+ \| v7.0+ \| v7.0+ \| - \|`
			`\| [SAML]({{< relref "../enterprise/configure-saml/" >}}) (Enterprise only) \| v6.3+ \| v7.0+ \| v7.0+ \| - \|`