Permissions

The Permissions page provides a detailed overview of the access each organization role has to the SolarWinds Observability product.

When a SolarWinds Observability feature is not listed on the Permissions page, it means the access level for that feature is the same for all organizational roles.

Setting	Organization role
Setting	Owner	Admin	Member	Viewer
Alerting
Management?	Full access: You can mute, acknowledge, or troubleshoot alerts on the Active Alerts page. You can also open the Entity Explorer with the entity that triggered the alert.	Full access: You can mute, acknowledge, or troubleshoot alerts on the Active Alerts page. You can also open the Entity Explorer with the entity that triggered the alert.	Full access: You can mute, acknowledge, or troubleshoot alerts on the Active Alerts page. You can also open the Entity Explorer with the entity that triggered the alert.	View-only: You can only view alerts on the Active Alerts page and open the Entity Explorer with the entity that triggered the alert. You cannot acknowledge, mute, or troubleshoot alerts.
Settings?	Full access: You can create, duplicate, mute, disable, edit, clear, and remove alerts in the Alert Settings page. You can also view the alert details by clicking the alert name.	Full access: You can create, duplicate, mute, disable, edit, clear, and remove alerts in the Alert Settings page. You can also view the alert details by clicking the alert name.	View-only: You can only mute or clear alerts listed on the Alert Settings page. You can also view the alert details by clicking the alert name. You cannot create, disable, edit, duplicate, or remove alerts.	View-only: You can only mute or clear alerts listed on the Alert Settings page. You can also view the alert details by clicking the alert name. You cannot create, disable, edit, duplicate, or remove alerts.
Dashboards
Management?	Full access: You can view and manage existing pre-built dashboards and create, view, and manage custom dashboards.	Full access: You can view and manage existing pre-built dashboards and create, view, and manage custom dashboards.	Full access: You can view and manage existing pre-built dashboards and create, view, and manage custom dashboards.	View-only: You can only view existing pre-built dashboards and custom dashboards. You cannot create or manage dashboards.
Entity Groups
Management?	Full access: You can create and manage entity groups and add entities to existing entity groups.	Full access: You can create and manage entity groups and add entities to existing entity groups.	Full access: You can create and manage entity groups and add entities to existing entity groups.	View-only: You can only view existing entity groups. You cannot create entity groups or add entities to existing entity groups.
Logs
Settings?	Full access: You can enable and disable log archiving, download logs in the log archive, view and create log exclusion filters, and create alerts for your search queries.	Full access: You can enable and disable log archiving, download logs in the log archive, view and create log exclusion filters, and create alerts for your search queries.	Full access: You can enable and disable log archiving, download logs in the log archive, view and create log exclusion filters, and create alerts for your search queries.	View-only: You can only view log archives and existing log exclusion filters. You cannot enable and disable log archiving, create new log exclusion filters, or create alerts for your search queries.
Notifications
Settings?	Full access: You can view and manage existing notification configurations or add new configurations.	Full access: You can view and manage existing notification configurations or add new configurations.	View-only: You can view existing notification configurations and add new configurations. You cannot manage existing notification configurations.	View-only: You can view existing notification configurations and add new configurations. You cannot manage existing notification configurations.
Organization
Activity Log?	View-only: You can view all user activity within the organization. You can also select all activity or your specific activity from the drop-down, and search for specific activity.	View-only: You can view all user activity within the organization. You can also select all activity or your own activity from the drop-down, and search for specific activity.	No access: You do not have access to the Activity Log and you do not see this option in your Settings menu. To view the log of your activities, click Settings > Profile.	No access: You do not have access to the Activity Log and you do not see this option in your Settings menu. To view the log of your activities, click Settings > Profile.
Agents?	Full access: You can view, restart, delete deployed Agents, and collect Agent logs. You can also update deployed Agents manually, disabling the automatic update option.	Full access: You can view, restart, delete deployed Agents, and collect Agent logs. You can also update deployed Agents manually, disabling the automatic update option.	View-only: You can view, restart, delete deployed Agents, and collect Agent logs. You cannot click the toggle disabling the Auto update option to update deployed Agents manually.	No access: You do not have access to the Agents page and you do not see this option in your Settings menu.
Full Access Token?	Full access: You can create new full access tokens. You can also edit or delete existing full access tokens.	Full access: You can create new full access tokens. You can also edit or delete existing full access tokens.	View-only: You can only view existing full access token names in Settings > API Tokens. You cannot create new full access tokens or delete existing full access tokens.	No access: You do not have access to existing full access tokens and you do not see this option in your Settings menu.
Properties?	Full access: You can view and edit the Organization details and configure Session Expiration in Settings > General.	Full access: You can view and edit the Organization details and configure Session Expiration in Settings > General.	View-only: You can view the Organization Details on the General page. You cannot edit the Organization Details or view Session Expiration settings.	View-only: You can view the Organization Details on the General page. You cannot edit the Organization Details or view Session Expiration settings.
Users?	Full access: You can invite new users to your organization. You can also remove users, edit users' organization roles, and resend or cancel invitations to users.	Full access: You can invite new users to your organization. You can also remove users, edit users' organization roles, and resend or cancel invitations to users.	View-only: You can only view users and pending invitations for your organization. You cannot invite users or manage users and pending invitations.	View-only: You can only view users and pending invitations for your organization. You cannot invite users or manage users and pending invitations.
Saved Searches
Management?	Full access: You can view, edit, or delete existing saved searches.	Full access: You can view, edit, or delete existing saved searches.	Full access: You can view, edit, or delete existing saved searches.	View-only: You can only view existing saved searches. You cannot edit or delete saved searches.
Security
MFA?	Full access: You can enable Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization. You can also set up and manage MFA for user accounts.	Full access: You can enable Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization. You can also set up and manage MFA for user accounts.	No access: You do not have access to MFA management. This option is not available in your Settings menu.	No access: You do not have access to MFA management. This option is not available in your Settings menu.
SAML?	Full access: You can configure and integrate SAML for your organization.	Full access: You can configure and integrate SAML for your organization.	No access: You do not have access to SAML configuration. This option is not available in your Settings menu.	No access: You do not have access to SAML configuration. This option is not available in your Settings menu.
Session Timeout?	Full access: You can view and modify Session Expiration settings on the General page.	Full access: You can view and modify Session Expiration settings on the General page.	No access: You do not have access to the Session Expiration settings. This option is not visible on the General page.	No access: You do not have access to the Session Expiration settings. This option is not visible on the General page.
Subscription
Trial Activation?	Full access: You can relaunch an expired trial version after the grace period.	Full access: You can relaunch an expired trial version after the grace period.	View-only: You cannot relaunch the trial version.	View-only: You cannot relaunch the trial version.

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