Manage Roles

This guide has information about creating and managing Sumo Logic roles. In Sumo Logic, an administrator controls access to capabilities and data by assigning capabilities and search filters to roles, and then assigning user to roles. For more information see Role-Based Access Control.

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To manage users and roles, you must have the administrator role or your role must have been assigned the manage users and roles capability.

In the Sumo Logic web app, you'll find pages for managing roles at Administration > Users and Roles > Roles.

In this section, we will introduce the following concepts:

📄️ Role-Based Access Control

Sumo Logic supports Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to control access to Sumo Logic functionality and to limit the data that users may view.

📄️ Create and Manage Roles

This page has instructions for creating and managing Sumo Logic roles. The roles you assign to a user control what Sumo Logic capabilities are available to the user and what log data the user can access. This functionality is referred to as role-based access control.

📄️ Role Capabilities

You can assign any of the following capabilities when you create roles.

📄️ Construct a Search Filter for a Role

This page describes how to define a search filter for a role. These instructions apply to Step 6 of the procedure detailed on the Create a New Role page.

📄️ Add or Remove Users from a Role

This page has instructions for added users to a role, and removing users from a role.