Role-Based Access Control

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a feature for teams that want to manage user's access to managing, editing, and viewing specific tests, buckets, and account features.

With RBAC you can:

• Allow users to have admin access to team's features such as RBAC itself, File Uploads, or billing details.
• Create a group that only has access to Bucket A and B, but not Bucket C.
• Create separate roles with different levels of access for developers, managers, Q&A, contractors, etc.

In this article:

• How RBAC Works
• Create and Manage Groups
• Create and Manage Roles and Permissions
  • Create a New Role
  • Edit a Role
  • Assign a Role to a Team Member

How RBAC Works

RBAC in BlazeMeter API Monitoring has three important elements: groups, roles, and permissions.

Groups

Groups are a way for team administrators to control team members access to private buckets. For example:

• You can have a group named "Internal", where team members that are part of that group only have access to BlazeMeter API Monitoring buckets that are related to internal APIs.
• You can have another group named "Contractors", where team members only have access to a select number of buckets that they're currently working on.

Buckets are set to public by default after they are created, and can be set to private by accessing the bucket's settings.

Users have a one-to-many relationship, so users can be a part of multiple groups at the same time. If a user is a part of multiple groups, they will have access to all of the buckets that are included in all of the groups they are a part of.

Roles and Permissions

Roles and permissions are a way to organize the level of access each team member can have. For example:

• A user can have a role of "Developer". That user will have a set of permissions that are related to development tasks, such as creating new tests, viewing tests, editing/modifying tests, deleting tests, etc.
• Another user can have a role of "Management". That user will have a set of permissions that allows them to view tests, but doesn't allow them to create or edit new tests. They can view the status and health of any API monitors, but won't be able to make changes to current test configurations.

The list of permissions is as follows:

List of Permissions

Create and Manage Groups

Follow these steps:

1. After logging in to your BlazeMeter API Monitoring account, click on your profile on the top-right and select Teams & Usage.
2. On the left-hand side, click on Team Members under the team that you want to manage.
3. Under the Team Groups section, click Add New.
4. Name your group and click Create Group.
5. Click the new group name.
6. Under the Private Buckets section, use the search box to search for private buckets under your account. Click Add Bucket to add a bucket to the list. Use the checkbox next to each bucket if you want to remove it from the list.
7. Under the Members section, enter your team member's email address that you want to give access to the buckets in the selected user group and click Add Member.
8. Click Save.

Create and Manage Roles and Permissions

Create a New Role

Follow these steps:

1. In API Monitoring, click your profile on the top-right and select Teams & Usage.
2. From the menu on the left, select Roles and Permissions.
   Note: By default, BlazeMeter API Monitoring creates three roles for every team with the RBAC feature enabled. These are protected roles and can't be edited: Administrators, Read-only Members, and User Group.
3. To create a new role, click Add Role.
4. Name the role.
   Example: If you want to create a new role with permissions to manage secrets at the bucket level, you can name the role Manage_Buckets.
5. Click Create Role.
   The role shows in the list of roles.
6. Click the new role and from the list of permissions, check the boxes for any permissions that you want the new role to have access to.
   Example: If you want to assign permissions to manage secrets at a bucket level, check Manage Bucket Secrets. Team members with this role will have permissions to create, edit and delete secrets at the bucket level.
7. Click Save.

Edit a Role

Follow these steps:

1. In API Monitoring, click your profile on the top-right and select Teams & Usage.
2. From the menu on the left, select Roles and Permissions.
   
3. Select an existing role that you wish to edit.
4. In the list of permissions, check or uncheck the boxes for various permissions, as needed.
5. Click Save.

Assign a Role to a Team Member

Follow these steps:

1. In API Monitoring, click your profile on the top-right and select Teams & Usage.
2. From the menu on the left, click Team Members.
3. Scroll down to the Team Members section and select the team member that you want to assign the role to.
4. From the drop-down list next to the name, select the role.
   Example: Earlier you created a new role called Manage_Buckets with permissions to Manage Bucket Secrets. When you assign the role, the team member will have permissions to create, edit and delete secrets at the bucket level.

For more information on managing teams, see API Monitoring Teams.