5 User roles
- Overview
- Default user roles

5 User roles

Overview

In the Administration → User roles section roles that can be assigned to system users and specific permissions for each role are maintained.

Default user roles

By default, Zabbix is configured with four user roles, which have a pre-defined set of permissions:

Admin role
Guest role
Super admin role
User role

Default Super admin role cannot be modified or deleted, because at least one Super admin user with unlimited privileges must exist in Zabbix.

Zabbix users with type Super admins and proper permissions can modify or delete existing roles or create new custom roles.

To create a new role, click on the Create user role button at the top right corner. To update an existing role, press on the role name to open the configuration form.

Available permission options along with default permission sets for pre-existing user roles in Zabbix are described below.

Parameter	Description	Default user roles
		Super admin role	Admin role	User role	Guest role
Name	Role visible name.	Super admin role	Admin role	User role	Guest role
User type	Selected user type determines the list of available permissions. Upon selecting a user type, all available permissions for this user type are granted by default. Uncheck the checkbox(es) to revoke certain permissions for the user role. Checkboxes for permissions not available for this user type are grayed out.	Super admin	Admin	User	User
Access to UI elements
Monitoring
Dashboard	Enable/disable access to a specific Monitoring menu section and underlying pages.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Problems
Hosts
Latest data
Maps
Discovery				No	No
Services
Services	Enable/disable access to a specific Services menu section and underlying pages.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Service actions
SLA
SLA report
Inventory
Overview	Enable/disable access to a specific Inventory menu section and underlying pages.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hosts		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reports
System information	Enable/disable access to a specific Reports menu section and underlying pages.	Yes	No	No	No
Availability report			Yes	Yes	Yes
Triggers top 100			Yes	Yes	Yes
Audit			No	No	No
Action log			No
Notifications			Yes
Scheduled reports			Yes
Configuration
Host groups	Enable/disable access to a specific Configuration menu section and underlying pages.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Templates
Hosts
Maintenance
Actions
Event correlation			No
Discovery			Yes
Administration
General	Enable/disable access to a specific Administration menu section and underlying pages.	Yes	No	No	No
Proxies
Authentication
User groups
User roles
Users
Media types
Scripts
Queue
Default access to new UI elements	Enable/disable access to the custom UI elements. Modules, if present, will be listed below.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access to services
Read-write access to services	Select read-write access to services: None - no access at all All - access to all services is read-write Service list - select services for read-write access The read-write access takes precedence over the read-only access and is dynamically inherited by the child services.	Yes	Yes	No	No
Read-write access to services with tag	Specify tag name and, optionally, value to additionally grant read-write access to services matching the tag. This option is available if ‘Service list’ is selected in the Read-write access to services parameter. The read-write access takes precedence over the read-only access and is dynamically inherited by the child services.
Read-only access to services	Select read-only access to services: None - no access at all All - access to all services is read-only Service list - select services for read-only access The read-only access does not take precedence over the read-write access and is dynamically inherited by the child services.
Read-only access to services with tag	Specify tag name and, optionally, value to additionally grant read-only access to services matching the tag. This option is available if ‘Service list’ is selected in the Read-only access to services parameter. The read-only access does not take precedence over the read-write access and is dynamically inherited by the child services.
Access to modules
<Module name>	Allow/deny access to a specific module. Only enabled modules are shown in this section. It is not possible to grant or restrict access to a module that is currently disabled.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Default access to new modules	Enable/disable access to modules that may be added in the future.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access to API
Enabled	Enable/disable access to API.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
API methods	Select Allow list to allow only specified API methods or Deny list to restrict only specified API methods. In the search field, start typing the method name, then select the method from the auto-complete list. You can also press the Select button and select methods from the full list available for this user type. Note, that if certain action from the Access to actions block is unchecked, users will not be able to use API methods related to this action. Wildcards are supported. Examples: `dashboard.` (all methods of ‘dashboard.’ API service) (any method), `*.export` (methods with ‘.export’ name from all API services). If no methods have been specified the Allow/Deny list rule will be ignored.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Access to actions
Create and edit dashboards	Clearing this checkbox will also revoke the rights to use `.create`, `.update` and `.delete` API methods for the corresponding elements.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create and edit maps				Yes
Create and edit maintenance				No
Add problem comments	Clearing this checkbox will also revoke the rights to perform corresponding action via `event.acknowledge` API method.			Yes
Change severity
Acknowledge problems
Close problems
Execute scripts	Clearing this checkbox will also revoke the rights to use the `script.execute` API method.
Manage API tokens	Clearing this checkbox will also revoke the rights to use all `token.` API methods.
Manage scheduled reports	Clearing this checkbox will also revoke the rights to use all `report.` API methods.			No
Manage SLA	Enable/disable the rights to manage SLA.			No
Default access to new actions	Enable/disable access to new actions.			Yes

Notes:

Each user may have only one role assigned.
If an element is restricted, users will not be able to access it even by entering a direct URL to this element into the browser.
Users of type User or Admin cannot change their own role settings.
Users of type Super admin can modify settings of their own role (not available for the default Super admin role), but not the user type.
Users of all levels cannot change their own user type.