Admin

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name: admin
license: Apache-2.0
description: Manage Grafana Cloud accounts — organizations, stacks, RBAC roles and assignments, SSO/SAML/OAuth/GitHub auth, service accounts for CI/CD, user invites, team membership, and API-driven provisioning. Creates stacks via the Cloud API, mints service-account tokens, applies role assignments, configures SSO providers, and provisions teams/folders/dashboards via Terraform. Use when managing Grafana Cloud access, configuring SSO/SAML/OAuth, setting up service accounts for Terraform/CI/CD, assigning RBAC roles, inviting users, managing multiple stacks or organizations, provisioning cloud resources via API or Terraform, or auditing admin actions — even when the user says "set up SSO", "create a stack", "make a service account", or "onboard a team" without explicitly saying "admin".
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# Grafana Cloud Admin

> **Docs**: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/account-management.md

## Common Workflows

### Setting up a new stack

```bash
# 1. Create the stack via Cloud API
curl -X POST https://grafana.com/api/instances \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <grafana-com-api-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "my-new-stack", "slug": "my-new-stack", "region": "us-east-0", "plan": "grafana-cloud-free"}'

# 2. Verify the stack is reachable (poll until 200)
until curl -fs https://my-new-stack.grafana.net/api/health > /dev/null; do sleep 2; done

# 3. Mint an admin service-account token (see § Service Accounts below)