Enable Explorer Menu to viewing Users

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Hi All,

Can you please help me on how to enable Explorer menu for non admin users.

Thanks in advance

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Hi!

Admins and Editors have access to Explore, assuming you have it enabled. Viewers do not have access and there is currently no way to set those permissions. You have to make users Editors if you want them to see Explore, but be careful since they have access to query your databases.

// Tobias Skarhed

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Hi @skarhed,

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

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REALLY?! this is not a solution, when you need to give someone “edit” permissions to view logs. We want devs to have access to loki logs but to give them edit seems like an overkill.

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I haven’t been able to test this yet, but according to this GitHub issue this is possible by setting the viewers_can_edit option to true in the [users] section of grafana.ini.

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This is tested and working

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I am circling back to this topic as I had someone ask me this recently. This is the current state:

  • Admins and Editors can see Explore by default
  • The viewers_can_edit config option is deprecated. The functionality may unexpectedly stop working
  • If you have Grafana Enterprise, you can give a user the RBAC role fixed:datasources:explorer
  • If you are running Grafana OSS your other option is to make the default role Editor by setting auto_assign_org_role in the config. Beware, as this may give your users unintended access to other things.