grafana/docs/sources/administration/permissions.md
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# Permissions
Grafana users have permissions that are determined by their:
- **Organization Role** (Admin, Editor, Viewer)
- Via **Team** memberships where the **Team** has been assigned specific permissions.
- Via permissions assigned directly to user (on folders or dashboards)
- The Grafana Admin (i.e. Super Admin) user flag.
## Organization Roles
Users can be belong to one or more organizations. A user's organization membership is tied to a role that defines what the user is allowed to do
in that organization.
### Admin Role
Can do everything scoped to the organization. For example:
- Add & Edit data sources.
- Add & Edit organization users & teams.
- Configure App plugins & set org settings.
### Editor Role
- Can create and modify dashboards & alert rules. This can be disabled on specific folders and dashboards.
- **Cannot** create or edit data sources nor invite new users.
### Viewer Role
- View any dashboard. This can be disabled on specific folders and dashboards.
- **Cannot** create or edit dashboards nor data sources.
This role can be tweaked via Grafana server setting [viewers_can_edit]({{< relref "installation/configuration.md#viewers-can-edit" >}}). If you set this to true users
with **Viewer** can also make transient dashboard edits, meaning they can modify panels & queries but not save the changes (nor create new dashboards).
Useful for public Grafana installations where you want anonymous users to be able to edit panels & queries but not save or create new dashboards.
## Grafana Admin
This admin flag makes a user a `Super Admin`. This means they can access the `Server Admin` views where all users and organizations can be administrated.
### Dashboard & Folder Permissions
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For dashboards and dashboard folders there is a **Permissions** page that make it possible to
remove the default role based permissions for Editors and Viewers. It's here you can add and assign permissions to specific **Users** and **Teams**.
You can assign & remove permissions for **Organization Roles**, **Users** and **Teams**.
Permission levels:
- **Admin**: Can edit & create dashboards and edit permissions.
- **Edit**: Can edit & create dashboards. **Cannot** edit folder/dashboard permissions.
- **View**: Can only view existing dashboards/folders.
#### Restricting Access
The highest permission always wins so if you for example want to hide a folder or dashboard from others you need to remove the **Organization Role** based permission from the Access Control List (ACL).
- You cannot override permissions for users with the **Org Admin Role**. Admins always have access to everything.
- A more specific permission with a lower permission level will not have any effect if a more general rule exists with higher permission level. You need to remove or lower the permission level of the more general rule.
#### How Grafana Resolves Multiple Permissions - Examples
##### Example 1 (`user1` has the Editor Role)
Permissions for a dashboard:
- `Everyone with Editor Role Can Edit`
- `user1 Can View`
Result: `user1` has Edit permission as the highest permission always wins.
##### Example 2 (`user1` has the Viewer Role and is a member of `team1`)
Permissions for a dashboard:
- `Everyone with Viewer Role Can View`
- `user1 Can Edit`
- `team1 Can Admin`
Result: `user1` has Admin permission as the highest permission always wins.
##### Example 3
Permissions for a dashboard:
- `user1 Can Admin (inherited from parent folder)`
- `user1 Can Edit`
Result: You cannot override to a lower permission. `user1` has Admin permission as the highest permission always wins.
- **View**: Can only view existing dashboards/folders.
- You cannot override permissions for users with **Org Admin Role**
- A more specific permission with lower permission level will not have any effect if a more general rule exists with higher permission level. For example if "Everyone with Editor Role Can Edit" exists in the ACL list then **John Doe** will still have Edit permission even after you have specifically added a permission for this user with the permission set to **View**. You need to remove or lower the permission level of the more general rule.
### Data source permissions
Permissions on dashboards and folders **do not** include permissions on data sources. A user with `Viewer` role
can still issue any possible query to a data source, not just those queries that exist on dashboards he/she has access to.
We hope to add permissions on data sources in a future release. Until then **do not** view dashboard permissions as a secure
way to restrict user data access. Dashboard permissions only limits what dashboards & folders a user can view & edit not which
data sources a user can access nor what queries a user can issue.