With this integration, you can automatically create incident-specific threads, track the timeline of events, interact with incidents using the Grafana Teams bot, and more. The first action that we have is to create a conversation thread inside your team. This allows you to determine the Microsoft Team and the channel where an incident thread will begin. In order to facilitate that experience, we have updated the Grafana IRM chatbot to include the Microsoft Teams integration.
This gives you flexibility to combine LDAP group memberships and Grafana team memberships. Team sync lets you set up synchronization between your auth providers teams and teams in Grafana. This enables LDAP, OAuth, or SAML users who are members of certain teams or groups to automatically be added or removed as members of certain teams in Grafana. You can repeat these steps to log in as the other users you’ve created see the differences in the viewer and editor roles. You’ve created a new user and given them unique permissions to view a single dashboard within a folder. However, there are times when you need to configure permissions on a more granular level.
Editors with administrator permissions
For this example, you can log in as the user luc.masson to see that they can only access the SEO dashboard. The consultant should only be able to access the SEO dashboard in the Analytics folder. Torkel is the creator of Grafana, the open source metrics dashboard that Grafana Labs is built around. He enjoys seeing people use metrics more through beautiful and easy to use software.
If you are running Grafana Enterprise, for some endpoints you’ll need to have specific permissions. For more information about assigning dashboard preview permissions to grafana team viewers, refer to Enable viewers to preview dashboards and use Explore. For more information about assigning dashboard permissions, refer to Grant dashboard permissions.
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There, you can set your credentials and then review the permissions that our chatbot app needs to work. The integration installation is simple and fast — the administrator for your organization needs to access our integrations page and choose the MS Teams integration. This topic describes what organizations are, and how to create, edit, and delete them. Integrating MS Teams with Grafana OnCall allows users to be notified of alerts directly in MS Teams with automated escalation
steps and user notification preferences. Users can also take action on alerts directly from MS Teams, including
acknowledge, unacknowledge, resolve, and silence.
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Manage dashboard permissions
This feature enables the distribution of escalations across various teams. User roles and permissions are assigned and managed at the Grafana organization or Cloud portal level. There are two ways to manage user roles and permissions
for Grafana OnCall. Data source permissions enable you to restrict data source query permissions to specific Users and Teams. For more information about assigning data source permissions, refer to Data source permissions.
For more information about assigning dashboard folder permissions, refer to Grant dashboard folder permissions. For more information about managing organization users, see User management. Multiple Orgs are easier and cheaper to manage than multiple Instances of Grafana. However, we rarely recommend Orgs as a way to separate teams, because they lack the flexibility of Folders and the true isolation of Instances and Stacks.
Enable and configure query caching
This can be useful when you have queries whose results change more or less often than the configured TTL. In the Edit Panel view, select the caching-enabled data source, expand the Query options, and enter your the TTL in milliseconds. You can enable the cache globally in Grafana’s configuration, and configure a cache duration (also called Time to Live, or TTL) for each data source individually. Create an organization when you want to isolate dashboards and other resources from each other. A team is a named grouping of Grafana users to which access control rules may be assigned.
Currently you can place dashboards, library panels, and alerts into folders (but not other resources like data sources, annotations, reports, or playlists). You can create, view, edit, or admin permissions for folders that apply to all of the resources within them. When you create a user they are granted the Viewer role by default, which means that they won’t be able to make any changes to any of the resources in Grafana. That’s ok for now, you’ll grant more user permissions by adding users to teams in the next step. Users, configuration settings, and Grafana Enterprise licenses are shared between organizations.
Grafana Orgs
To learn more about how to use the chatbot with Microsoft Teams, please check out our Microsoft Teams integration documentation. Next, you will see more options about what incidents you want to post in your channel — all, nondrill, or drill. You can also choose whether to post updates in the thread when a user comes to the Grafana Incident UI and actively works in the incident. For example, if a user adds notes, comments, and tasks, they can be shared in the MS Teams incident thread. For more information about adding users to an organization, refer to Add a user to an organization. The Microsoft Teams integration for Grafana OnCall embeds your MS Teams channels directly into your incident response
workflow to help your team focus on alert resolution.
- This is just a small glimpse into the power of the Grafana IRM chatbot and how it works with engineers during an incident response.
- This tutorial is for admins or anyone that wants to learn how to manage
users in Grafana. - Confidently democratize data across your entire company with advanced admin tools to govern, audit, and secure user permissions and data.
- Send your local data to Grafana’s backend for long-term storage, aggregation, and high-performance querying.
- This feature enables the distribution of escalations across various teams.
Graphona has asked you to add a group of early adopters that work in the Marketing and Engineering teams. They’ll need to be able to edit their own team’s dashboards, but want to have view access to dashboards that belong to the other team. Members of a team inherit permissions from the team, but they cannot edit the team itself.
Configure user notifications with Microsoft Teams
You can assign data source permissions to users, teams, and roles which will allow access to query or edit the data source. The most important limitation is that only certain resources can be placed into folders, and therefore access-controlled using folder permissions. Some resources, like data sources, have their own permissions that can be granted to Teams, but others do not. If users create annotations, reports, alert notification channels, API keys, Snapshots, or Playlists, those resources are shared across all Teams. When you grant user permissions for folders, that setting applies to all dashboards and subfolders contained in the folder. Consider using this approach to assigning dashboard and folder permissions when you have users or teams who require access to groups of related dashboards or folders.
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