# Grafana Access Control (RBAC) API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-rbac-api/  
**Provider:** Grafana — https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/  
**Documentation:** https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/access_control/

Grafana Access Control (RBAC) API is one of 20 APIs that [Grafana](https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Observability, Grafana, RBAC, and Access Control. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Manage fine-grained role-based access control assignments, custom roles, permission grants against folders/dashboards/data sources, service accounts, service account tokens, and SSO provider settings (SAML, OAuth, LDAP). Replaces the legacy API-key system as the recommended authentication surface for automation.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/access_control/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/sso-settings/
- **OpenAPI** — https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/public/api-merged.json

## Other Grafana APIs (12)

- [Grafana HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-http-api/)
- [Grafana Dashboard API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-dashboard-api/)
- [Grafana Folder and Search API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-folder-api/)
- [Grafana Data Source API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-data-source-api/)
- [Grafana Alerting Provisioning API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-alerting-api/)
- [Grafana Annotations API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-annotations-api/)
- [Grafana Organization and Users API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-org-api/)
- [Grafana Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-admin-api/)
- [Grafana Library Elements API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-library-elements-api/)
- [Grafana Correlations API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-correlations-api/)
- [Grafana Snapshot, Short URL, and Query History API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-snapshot-shorturl-api/)
- [Grafana Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-cloud-api/)

## Tags

Observability, Grafana, RBAC, Access Control

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