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# Service accounts

A service account represents a Grafana service identity, which are users that are intended for programmatic use either internally for a Grafana feature or through an API key, such as timely reporting, automatic provisioning or systems interacting with Grafana. See [service account] for more information

- [Service account]({{< relref "serviceaccount.md" >}}) - Describes service account in detail.
- [Service account API]({{< relref "../../http_api/serviceaccount.md" >}}) - Manage users or change passwords programmatically.