Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace

To create a workspace in Amazon Managed Grafana

1. Open the Amazon Managed Grafana console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/grafana/.

2. Choose Create workspace.

3. In the Workspace details window, for Workspace name, enter a name for the workspace.

   Optionally, enter a description for the workspace.

   Optionally, add the tags you want to associate with this workspace. Tags help identify and organize workspaces and also can be used for controlling access to AWS resources. For example, you can assign a tag to the workspace and only a limited groups or roles can have the permission to access the workspace using the tag. For more information on tag-based access control, see Controlling access to AWS resources using tags in IAM User Guide.

   

4. Choose a Grafana version for the workspace. You can choose version 8, 9, or 10. To understand the differences between the versions, see Differences between Grafana versions.

5. Choose Next.

6. For Authentication access, select AWS IAM Identity Center , Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), or both. For more information, see Authenticate users in Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces.

   • IAM Identity Center — If you select IAM Identity Center and you have not already enabled AWS IAM Identity Center in your account, you are prompted to enable it by creating your first IAM Identity Center user. IAM Identity Center handles user management for access to Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces.

     To enable IAM Identity Center, follow these steps:

   1. Choose Create user.

   2. Enter an email address, first name, and last name for the user, and choose Create user. For this tutorial, use the name and email address of the account that you want to use to try out Amazon Managed Grafana. You will receive an email message prompting you to create a password for this account for IAM Identity Center.

   Important

   The user that you create does not automatically have access to your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace. You provide the user with access to the workspace in the workspace details page in a later step.

   • SAML — If you select SAML, you complete the SAML setup after the workspace is created.

7. Choose Service managed or Customer managed.

   If you choose Service managed, Amazon Managed Grafana automatically creates the IAM roles and provisions the permissions that you need for the AWS data sources in this account that you choose to use for this workspace.

   If you want to manage these roles and permissions yourself, choose Customer managed.

   If you are creating a workspace in a member account of an organization, to be able to choose Service managed the member account must be a delegated administrator account in an organization. For more information about delegated administrator accounts, see Register a delegated administrator.

8. (Optional) You can choose to connect to an Amazon virtual private cloud (VPC) on this page, or you can connect to a VPC later. To learn more, see Connect to data sources or notification channels in Amazon VPC from Amazon Managed Grafana.

9. (Optional) You can choose other workspace configuration options on this page, including the following:

   • Enable Grafana alerting. Grafana alerting allows you to view Grafana alerts and alerts defined in Prometheus within a single alerts interface within your Grafana workspace.

     In workspaces running version 8 or 9, this will send multiple notifications for your Grafana alerts. If you use alerts defined in Grafana, we recommend creating your workspace as version 10.4 or later.

   • Allow Grafana admins to manage plugins for this workspace. If you don't enable plugin management, your admins will not be able to install, uninstall, or remove plugins for your workspace. You might be limited to the types of data sources and visualization panels you can use with Amazon Managed Grafana.

   You can also make these configuration changes after creating your workspace. To learn more about configuring your workspace, see Configure a Amazon Managed Grafana workspace.

10. (Optional) You can choose to add Network access control for your workspace. To add network access control, choose Restricted access. You can also enable network access control after you have created your workspace.

    For more information about network access control, see Configure network access to your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace.

11. Choose Next.

12. If you chose Service managed, choose Current account to have Amazon Managed Grafana automatically create policies and permissions that allow it to read AWS data only in the current account.

    If you are creating a workspace in the management account or a delegated administrator account in an organization, you can choose Organization to have Amazon Managed Grafana automatically create policies and permissions that allow it to read AWS data in other accounts in the organizational units that you specify. For more information about delegated administrator accounts, see Register a delegated administrator.

    Note

    Creating resources such as Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces in the management account of an organization is against AWS security best practices.

    1. If you chose Organization, and you are prompted to enable AWS CloudFormation StackSets, choose Enable trusted access. Then, add the AWS Organizations organizational units (OUs) that you want Amazon Managed Grafana to read data from. Amazon Managed Grafana can then read data from all accounts in each OU that you choose.

    2. If you chose Organization, choose Data sources and notification channels - optional.

13. Select the AWS data sources that you want to query in this workspace. Selecting data sources enables Amazon Managed Grafana to create IAM roles and permissions that allow Amazon Managed Grafana to read data from these sources. You must still add the data sources in the Grafana workspace console.

14. (Optional) If you want Grafana alerts from this workspace to be sent to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification channel, select Amazon SNS. This enables Amazon Managed Grafana to create an IAM policy to publish to the Amazon SNS topics in your account with TopicName values that start with grafana. This does not completely set up Amazon SNS as a notification channel for the workspace. You can do that within the Grafana console in the workspace.

15. Choose Next.

16. Confirm the workspace details, and choose Create workspace.

    The workspace details page appears.

    Initially, the Status is CREATING.

    Important

    Wait until the status is ACTIVE before doing either of the following:

    • Completing the SAML setup, if you are using SAML.

    • Assigning your IAM Identity Center users access to the workspace, if you are using IAM Identity Center.

    You might need to refresh your browser to see the current status.

17. If you are using IAM Identity Center, do the following:

    1. In the Authentication tab, choose Assign new user or group.

    2. Select the check box next to the user that you want to grant workspace access to, and choose Assign user.

    3. Select the check box next to the user, and choose Make admin.

       Important

       Assign at least one user as Admin for each workspace, in order to sign in to the Grafana workspace console to manage the workspace.

18. If you are using SAML, do the following:

    1. In the Authentication tab, under Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), choose Complete setup.

    2. For Import method, do one of the following:

       • Choose URL and enter the URL of the IdP metadata.

       • Choose Upload or copy/paste. If you are uploading the metadata, choose Choose file and select the metadata file. Or, if you are using copy and paste, copy the metadata into Import the metadata.

    3. For Assertion attribute role, enter the name of the SAML assertion attribute from which to extract role information.

    4. For Admin role values, either enter the user roles from your IdP who should all be granted the Admin role in the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace, or select I want to opt-out of assigning admins to my workspace.

       Note

       If you choose I want to opt-out of assigning admins to my workspace., you won't be able to use the console to administer the workspace, including tasks such as managing data sources, users, and dashboard permissions. You can make administrative changes to the workspace only by using Amazon Managed Grafana APIs.

    5. (Optional) To enter additional SAML settings, choose Additional settings and do one or more the following. All of these fields are optional.

       • For Assertion attribute name, specify the name of the attribute within the SAML assertion to use for the user full "friendly" names for SAML users.

       • For Assertion attribute login, specify the name of the attribute within the SAML assertion to use for the user sign-in names for SAML users.

       • For Assertion attribute email, specify the name of the attribute within the SAML assertion to use for the user email names for SAML users.

       • For Login validity duration (in minutes), specify how long a SAML user's sign-in is valid before the user must sign in again. The default is 1 day, and the maximum is 30 days.

       • For Assertion attribute organization, specify the name of the attribute within the SAML assertion to use for the "friendly" name for user organizations.

       • For Assertion attribute groups, specify the name of the attribute within the SAML assertion to use for the "friendly" name for user groups.

       • For Allowed organizations, you can limit user access to only the users who are members of certain organizations in the IdP. Enter one or more organizations to allow, separating them with commas.

       • For Editor role values, enter the user roles from your IdP who should all be granted the Editor role in the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace. Enter one or more roles, separated by commas.

    6. Choose Save SAML configuration.

19. In the workspace details page, choose the URL displayed under Grafana workspace URL.

20. Choosing the workspace URL takes you to the landing page for the Grafana workspace console. Do one of the following:

    • Choose Sign in with SAML, and enter the name and password.

    • Choose Sign in with AWS IAM Identity Center, and enter the email address and password of the user that you created earlier in this procedure. These credentials only work if you have responded to the email from Amazon Managed Grafana that prompted you to create a password for IAM Identity Center.

      You are now in your Grafana workspace, or logical Grafana server. You can start adding data sources to query, visualize, and analyze data. For more information, see Use your Grafana workspace.