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User Roles

Overview

OpsWorker uses role-based access control with two roles: Admin and Member.

Permissions

CapabilityAdminMember
View investigationsYesYes
Use AI ChatYesYes
Provide investigation feedbackYesYes
View dashboards and insightsYesYes
Manage alert rulesYesNo
Manage clustersYesNo
Manage integrationsYesNo
Invite usersYesNo
Manage workspacesYesNo
Configure notification routingYesNo
Access all workspacesYesAssigned only

Role Descriptions

Admin

Full access to all OpsWorker features, including configuration and management:

  • Create and manage workspaces, clusters, and integrations
  • Configure alert rules and notification routing
  • Invite and manage users
  • View all workspaces regardless of assignment

Recommended for: Team leads, SRE managers, platform engineers who manage the OpsWorker setup.

Member

Access to investigations, chat, and dashboards within assigned workspaces:

  • View investigation results and details
  • Use AI Chat to query clusters
  • Provide feedback on investigations
  • View operational insights and alert data

Recommended for: On-call engineers, developers, team members who use OpsWorker for daily operations.

Changing Roles

  1. Go to Account Settings → User Management
  2. Find the user
  3. Change their role
  4. Save

Organization Owner

The user who created the organization is the owner. The owner has full admin access and cannot be removed from the organization.

Next Steps