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Sharing and organizations ​

You can let other daemonitor accounts see your systems without handing over your login. A share grant gives one person access to your whole account, to one system, or to one group of services, with either a viewer or a manager role. Organizations are a second way in. They group systems by customer and give the organization's members access to those systems.

The systems stay yours in every case. Sharing never transfers ownership, and the system keys stay with you.

Share grants ​

What you can share ​

ScopeGives access toWhere to set it
Whole accountEvery system and group you own, including ones you add laterSettings, Delegation
One systemThat system, all its services, their history and eventsThe system page, Share
One groupOnly the services in that group, plus the names of the systems they run onAPI only for now

A group share is the narrow one. The grantee sees the services in the group and nothing else on those hosts. They can't read the rest of a system's services or its history.

Roles ​

ViewerManager
See the shared systems, services, history and eventsyesyes
Read incidents filed against those systemsyesyes
Archive systems and servicesnoyes
Create, edit and delete groupsnoyes, on a shared group, or anywhere in the account with a whole-account grant
Write and edit incidentsnowhole-account grant only
Rename the shared account's display namenowhole-account grant only
Receive Slack alertsnowhole-account or system grant

Neither role can delete systems, share them onward, assign them to an organization, or create enrollment tokens for them. Those stay with the owner.

Notifications explains exactly who gets paged.

Invite someone ​

Enter the person's email address and pick a role. What happens next depends on whether they have an account.

  • If the email already has a daemonitor account, the grant is active at once.
  • If not, the grant shows as "pending, awaiting sign-up". It activates by itself when someone signs up with that email.

You can't share with your own email address. Sharing the same thing with the same email again updates the role on the existing grant.

What the grantee sees ​

A whole-account grant adds your account to the grantee's account switcher. They view your fleet as you see it, without signing in as you. A system or group grant shows up in their fleet next to their own systems, marked as shared.

Change or remove a grant ​

The same share control lists every grant with its status. Change the role there, or remove the grant. Removal takes effect on the grantee's next request.

Organizations ​

An organization is a customer. It has a name, a colour, a description and a website, and a list of members. Assigning a system to an organization gives every member of that organization read access to the system.

This is meant for agencies and managed service providers. You keep owning your customers' systems and assign each one to the customer's organization. You can then:

  • Keep the organization to yourself, purely to sort systems by customer.
  • Invite a technical contact at the customer. They see that organization's systems and nothing else, because they own nothing and hold no share grants.
  • Issue an organization-scoped API key that returns only that customer's systems.

Membership in one organization never reaches a system in another, or a system with no organization.

Create and manage an organization ​

Settings, Organizations. Whoever creates an organization becomes its owner.

RoleCan
ownerEverything an admin can, plus grant the owner role.
adminEdit the profile, add and remove members, change roles.
memberSee the organization, its member list, and the systems assigned to it.

Members must already have a daemonitor account. Unlike share grants, there are no pending invites. The last owner can't leave or be removed. Promote someone else first.

Assign a system ​

On the system page, choose an organization from the manage menu, or No organization to clear it. Only the system's owner can do this, and only to an organization they belong to.

Assigning a system is a sharing action. If the organization has other members, the dashboard asks you to confirm, and names how many people will gain access. Clearing the organization removes that access from members who have no other way in.

Organization members can read assigned systems. They are not paged for them, and they can't change them.