Assign roles to users in Splunk Observability Cloud

Manage users: Add one or more roles to a user in Splunk Observability Cloud.

You can assign roles to existing and new users to determine what they can do and which features they can access in Splunk Observability Cloud. For example, certain roles allow users to create detectors or dashboards.

Users can have multiple roles at the same time. See About roles in Splunk Observability Cloud for more information. For details about each role and the associated capabilities, see Splunk Observability Cloud matrix of roles and capabilities.

Note: To create or manage users, you must have administrator access. To get this access, an existing administrator adds it to your user profile. See Create and manage users in Splunk Observability Cloud for more information.

View roles assigned to users

To see the roles assigned to users in your organization, follow these steps:

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Settings then Users.

  2. The roles for all users are in the Roles column of the table.

Assign roles when inviting new users

To assign roles when inviting new users, follow these steps:

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Settings then Users.

  2. Select Invite Users.

  3. Enter the email addresses to invite.

  4. Select the Roles field to select any of the available roles.

  5. Select Send Invitation to confirm.

Assign roles to an existing user

To assign roles to a user that’s already a member of your organization, follow these steps:

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Settings then Users.

  2. Find the name of the user.

  3. Select the Actions (⋮) menu icon next to the username, then select Manage Roles.

  4. In the Manage Roles dialog box, select one or more of the available roles. Make sure to deselect any roles, including the default SSO role, power, if you no longer want a user to have that role. Then select the right-pointing arrow to move the roles to the Selected Roles panel.

  5. Select Assign Roles to confirm.

Note: You can use the Add All link to add all available roles to a user.

Remove roles from an existing user

To remove roles from a user that’s already a member of your organization, follow these steps:

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Settings then Users.

  2. Find the name of the user.

  3. Select the Actions (⋮) menu icon next the username, then select Manage Roles.

  4. In the Manage Roles dialog box, select one or more of the selected roles, then select the left-pointing arrow to move the roles back to the Available Roles panel.

  5. Select Assign Roles to confirm.

Note: You can use the Remove All link to add all available roles to a user.

Edit roles for multiple users

To edit roles for multiple users at the same time, follow these steps:

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Settings then Users.

  2. Find users using the search bar.

  3. Select the users you want to edit.

  4. Select - or + in the Roles bar at the bottom of the table to remove or add roles.

  5. In the dialog box, select the roles you want to remove or add, depending on your previous choice.

  6. Confirm your selection.

Edit user roles using the API

To view, add, or remove roles using the Splunk Observability Cloud REST API, see Organizations in the developer documentation.