View and manage permissions for detectors

Learn how to manage access permissions for detectors.

Note: Available in Enterprise Edition

To help you manage write permissions, Splunk Observability Cloud lets you view grant and revoke permissions for detectors.

To learn more about write permissions, see Write permissions.

If you want to get write permission for a detector, or if you want to modify permissions, first determine who already has permissions by displaying the Permissions list. You need a user who has write permission to add you to the permissions list.

Display a detector permissions list

To display the permissions list for a detector, follow these steps:

  1. Open the detector.

  2. Select the actions menu (⋯), then select Permissions.

Note: You can open a detector from the Detectors tab on the Alerts page.

Grant and revoke permissions for detectors

After you display a permissions list for a detector, you can start to grant or revoke write permissions for users or teams. To grant or revoke permissions for a detector, you need write permission for the detector.

Grant write permission for detectors

To grant write permission for a detector, follow these steps:

  1. Display the permissions for the item by selecting the actions menu (⋯) and selecting Permissions.

  2. To start using specific write permissions for a detector, uncheck Anyone in this organization can edit. You are now the only user who can edit the item.

  3. Select Add user or team, then select the users or teams to whom you want to grant write permissions for the item.

  4. Select Save.

Revoke write permissions for detectors

To revoke write permissions for a detector, follow these steps:

  1. Display the permissions for the item by selecting the actions menu (⋯) and selecting Permissions.

  2. To remove a user or team, select the x next to the user or team name.

  3. Select Save.

Note: You can remove your own write permission from a detector. However, if you're not an administrator, you can't grant yourself write permission again. Instead, you have to find someone else with write permission to grant you write permission.

Detector actions that require write permission

The following table describes detector actions that require write permissions.

Action

Requires write permission

Edit or delete a detector

Yes

Subscribe to or manage subscriptions for a detector

Yes

Add or remove links between a detector and a team

Yes

Manage muting rules for a detector

No