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Brenda Harjala c9e566b156 Docs: Minor edits to the README and several md files (#19238)
* Update README.md

Capitalized the G and S in "Getting Started," and moved "guide" to match the section title in the docs.

* Fixed sentence structure. Changed "download" to "grafana.com/get" and changed "get" to "download".

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

*  Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)

* Docs: Replace "datasources" with "data sources" (#19111)
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+++ title = "Overview" description = "Overview for permissions" keywords = ["grafana", "configuration", "documentation", "admin", "users", "datasources", "permissions"] type = "docs" aliases = ["/reference/admin", "/administration/permissions/"] [menu.docs] name = "Overview" identifier = "overview-permissions" parent = "permissions" weight = 1 +++

Permissions Overview

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, dashboards, data sources)
  • The Grafana Admin (i.e. Super Admin) user flag.

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.

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. Learn more about [Organization Roles]({{< relref "permissions/organization_roles.md" >}}).

Dashboard & Folder Permissions

Dashboard and folder permissions allows you to remove the default role based permissions for Editors and Viewers and assign permissions to specific Users and Teams. Learn more about [Dashboard & Folder Permissions]({{< relref "permissions/dashboard_folder_permissions.md" >}}).

Data source permissions

Per default, a data source in an organization can be queried by any user in that organization. For example 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.

Data source permissions allows you to change the default permissions for data sources and restrict query permissions to specific Users and Teams. Read more about [data source permissions]({{< relref "permissions/datasource_permissions.md" >}}).