Lack of read-only roles causes scaling issues with InfluxDB adoption in large organizations

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Currently, InfluxDB Cloud has only one permission level for users: Owner . With Owner permissions, a user can delete resources and other users from your organization. Take care when inviting a user.

That’s not helpful. This prevents InfluxDB from safely being used in teams larger than a handful of people. When will we get read-only roles?

Will version 3 (Core? Enterprise? Cloud?) feature true, differential roles? The documentation for v3 Influx offerings doesn’t appear to even have pages about users, compared to documentation for v2.

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@Pete_InfluxData do you have any insight if this is for the roadmap for v3?
Thanks!

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Hey @aep-sunlife – thanks for the request, apologies I never replied, and you’ve likely moved past this question.

Just following up for those who may find this thread in the future, Enterprise does have segmented, read-only permissions for specific users. You can use a Resource token to supply this functionality. These resources can be per DB, read/write/read-write, to ensure there’s no extra-powerful permissions.

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Without read-only roles it is hard to control access in large teams, leading to security and scaling issues during InfluxDB adoption.

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Hi @Jack_Qasim you can most certainly do read-only access permission in InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, see this doc on how to do that: Create a resource token | InfluxDB 3 Enterprise Documentation

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Lack of read by only roles limits safe data access making it hard to good scale to the usage across teams in large to the organizations.