Roles in Bigeye

Custom roles in Bigeye offer administrators fine-grained control over user permissions within specified workspaces. This feature allows for better flexibility and control, enabling you to tailor access to meet your organization’s unique needs.

Bigeye grants permissions to groups with an additive only model. Permissions are not granted to a group until they are explicitly granted via a role. Many roles can be granted to one group, and the group will be granted the cumulative access across all the roles it is assigned.

• Example: If Role A grants Permissions 1, 2, and 3, and Role B grants Permissions 1 and 2, applying both roles to one group will not revoke Permission 3.

Creating Roles

How to Create a Custom Role

1. Navigate to the Roles tab in Settings
   1. You can use the settings dropdown and select Roles for quick access.
2. Click the Create Role button on the roles listing page.
3. In the modal that appears:
   1. Name the role.
   2. Select a base role - base roles are sets of permissions managed by Bigeye to help you make managing your instance easier. Note that it’s possible to select None, this will apply only the selected permissions to the role. If None is selected you must select at least one permission.
   3. Select one or more permissions to apply to the custom role.
   4. NOTE: you will see a warning in the modal if you have advanced settings that will prevent the permissions you’re trying to apply from taking effect.
4. Click Save to finalize the role.

Permissions

To learn more about the permissions that can be assigned to a role see the Permissions doc.

Editing Roles

How to Edit a Role

1. Navigate to the Roles tab in Settings.
2. Find the role and click the pencil/edit icon.
3. Modify the role’s title, description, permissions in the modal.
4. Save the changes.

Changes take effect immediately for all users assigned the updated role.

Applying Roles

How to Apply a Role

Roles must be applied to users via a Group and a Workspace. Please refer to the Manage Groups doc to learn how to apply roles.

Deleting Roles

How to Delete a Custom Role

1. Navigate to the Roles tab in Settings.
2. Find the role and click the delete icon.
3. Confirm the deletion.

Deleting a role immediately revokes all permissions associated with it across all workspaces where the role was applied.

Wrapping Up

For additional guidance or troubleshooting, please refer to the related documentation linked throughout this guide or reach out to your Bigeye representative.