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A user has an account in Grafana. A user is granted permissions in Grafana based on the following roles:
Admin: An admin has superuser permissions in Grafana, and can do everything, including adding and editing data sources, generating queries for the data sources, and creating and modifying dashboards.
Editor: An editor has limited permissions in Grafana. Although an editor can create and modify dashboards, they cannot create or edit data sources, or generate queries for the data sources.
Viewer: A viewer has read-only access to the components in Grafana. For example, a viewer can view data sources and dashboards, but cannot modify them.
In this book, you access Grafana as an Admin. For more information about the Admin, Editor, and Viewer roles, see the upstream documentation at:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/permissions/organization_roles/