How to create a Grafana team

Creating a Grafana team groups users who need the same dashboard, folder, data source, and alert permissions. Use a team when access should follow a service group, support rotation, project, or platform function instead of being assigned one user at a time.

The team is created from Administration → Users and access → Teams in the Grafana web UI. Use an organization administrator account, or another account with permission to manage teams, so the new team can be saved and managed after creation.

A new team has a name, an optional email address for the team avatar, and a members page where users can be added later. Grafana instances with team folders enabled may also offer an auto-create folder option during setup; leave that off unless the team should immediately own a dedicated folder.

1. Open Administration → Users and access → Teams.
2. Click New team.
3. Enter a unique team name in Name and, if needed, a shared address in Email.

   The Email field is optional and is mainly used for the team avatar. Use a shared address only when the address belongs to the team, not to an individual user.

4. Click Create.

   Grafana opens the team page after creation. Use Add member only after the team exists and the member account is already available in the organization.

5. Return to Administration → Users and access → Teams and confirm that the team row appears with the expected name, email address, and member count.