Role Capabilities

Following are the capabilities you can assign when you create roles.

Data Management

Capability	Description
View Collectors	View collectors and sources that have already been installed or added.
Manage Collectors	View and manage installed and hosted collectors as well as sources.
Manage Ingest Budgets	Allows you to manage ingest budgets. Enabling this will automatically enable the Manage Collectors capability. The Manage Collectors capability on its own permits the re-assignment of budgets to different collectors, but not creating or deleting them.
Manage Data Volume Feed	Enable and manage the data volume index for your account to avoid using On-Demand Capacity, and to determine when you need to upgrade your account.
View Field Extraction Rules	View field extraction rules, which accelerate your search process by automatically parsing fields as log messages are ingested.
View Fields	View fields, which are custom metadata fields you can assign to logs.
Manage Fields	Manage fields. Note that if you grant a role the Manage Fields capability, users with that role will also have the View Fields and View Field Extraction Rules capabilities.
Manage Field Extraction Rules	Manage field extractions, which speed the search process by automatically parsing fields as log messages are ingested. Note that if you grant a role the Manage Field Extraction Rules capability, users with that role will also have the Manage Fields, View Fields, and View Field Extraction Rules capabilities.
Manage S3 Data Forwarding	Manage S3 data forwarding from Sumo Logic to an S3 bucket.
Manage Content	Manage the content for your organization. This provides access to Admin Mode in the Library.
Manage Apps	Install and manage apps.
Manage Connections	Manage the connections that allow you to send alerts to other tools.
View Scheduled Views	View Scheduled Views.
Manage Scheduled Views	View, create, edit, and delete Scheduled Views. Note that if you grant a role the Manage Schedule Views capability, users with that role will also have View Scheduled Views capability.
View Partitions	View partitions.
Manage Partitions	View, create, edit, and delete partitions. Note that if you grant a role the Manage Partitions capability, users with that role will also have View Partitions and Manage S3 Data Forwarding capabilities.
View Account Overview	View the Account Overview page.
Manage Tokens	Manage Installation Tokens.
View Parsers	View parsers.
Download Search Results	Export log query results to a .csv file.

Entity Management

Capability	Description
Manage Entity Type Configs	Reserved for internal use.

Metrics

Capability	Description
Manage Metrics Transformation Rules	Create, edit, or delete metrics transformation rules.
Manage Logs-to-Metrics	Create, edit, or delete Logs-to-Metrics rules.
Manage Metrics Rules	Create, edit, or delete metrics rules.

Security

Capability	Description
Manage Password Policy	Set the password policy for your Sumo Logic account.
Allowlist IP Addresses	Explicitly grant access to specific IP addresses or address ranges.
Create Access Keys	Create your own access keys on the Account Preferences page.
Manage Access Keys	Set up, activate, deactivate, or delete access keys for your organization.
Manage Support Account Access	Enable management of the Sumo Logic support account for your organization.
Manage Audit Data Feed	Enable and manage the Audit Index, which provides information on the internal events that occur in your account associated with account management, user activity, and scheduled searches.
Manage SAML	Provision and manage SAML for single sign-on to your Sumo Logic accounts.
Manage Share Dashboards Outside of Organization	Share a dashboard with users who don't have access to Sumo Logic.
Manage Organization Settings	Configure a concurrent user sessions limit and enable the Data Access Level for Shared Dashboards security policy.
Change Data Access Level	Change the data access level of dashboards or scheduled searches to which they have edit or manage permission.

Dashboards

Capability	Description
Share dashboards with the allowlist	Share dashboards in view-only mode with no login required. Viewers must be connecting from IP addresses specified in your service allowlist.
Share dashboards with the world	Share dashboards in view-only mode with no login required. Anyone with the URL can view the dashboard without logging in.

User Management

Capability	Description
Manage users and roles	Access the web app pages to manage users and roles.

Alerting

Folder-level permissions are available if your org has fine-grained Monitor permissions enabled. If you'd like to use this feature, contact Sumo Logic Support to have it enabled.

Capability	Description
View Monitors	If Monitors folder permissions are enabled for your org, users with this capability can view folders on the Monitors page to which they've been granted View access, and the Monitors contained in those folders.
Manage Monitors	Users with this capability can create new folders and Monitors, and grant other roles permissions to the folders they create. If Monitors folder permissions are enabled for your org, users with this capability can also create, edit, delete, update and grant permissions to folders to which another user has granted them those permissions.
Admin Monitors	If Monitors folder permissions are enabled for your org, users with this capability have full access (Create, Edit, Delete, Update, and grant permissions) to ALL folders and monitors on the Monitors page. This is similar to the Content Administrator capability of the Content Library.
View Alerts	View alerts on the Alert page.
View Muting Schedules	Required for viewing the Muting Schedules page and schedule definitions.
Manage Muting Schedules	Required for creating, editing, and deleting Muting Schedules.

Reliability Management

Capability	Description
View SLOs	View Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
Manage SLOs	Create, edit, and delete SLOs.

Organizations

Capability	Description
View Organizations	View the Organizations UI.
Create Organizations	Create and provision child organizations.
Change Credits Allocation	Change the credits allocation for a child organization.
Create Trial Organizations	Create trial organizations. (For Sumo Logic Service Providers only.)
Upgrade Trial Organizations	Upgrade trial organizations. (For Sumo Logic Service Providers only.)
Deactivate Organizations	Deactivate trial organizations. (For Sumo Logic Service Providers only.)

Cloud SOAR

Cloud SOAR capabilities appear in the Roles UI only if Cloud SOAR has been enabled for your account.

Capability category	Capability	Description
View Cloud SOAR		Users with a role that grants this capability will see a Cloud SOAR link in the left-nav bar of the Sumo Logic UI.
App Central	Access	Access App Central.
App Central	Export	Export from App Central.
Integrations	Access	Access Integrations.
Integrations	Configure	Configure Integrations.
Automation Playbooks	Access	Access playbooks.
Automation Playbooks	Configure	Configure playbooks.
Bridge Monitoring	Access	Access Bridge monitoring.
Observability	Access	Access playbook execution information.
Observability	Configure	Configure playbook execution information.

Cloud SIEM Enterprise

Cloud SIEM Enterprise capabilities only appear in the Roles UI if Cloud SIEM has been enabled for your account. For more information about how to assign Cloud SIEM capabilities, see Cloud SIEM User Accounts and Roles.

Capability category	Capability	Description
View Cloud SIEM Enterprise		Users with a role that grants this capability will see a Cloud SIEM Enterprise link in the left-nav bar of the Sumo Logic UI. When a user clicks on the link, the Cloud SIEM Heads-Up Display (HUD) will open.
Insights	Comment on Insights	Add comments to Insights.
Insights	Create Insights	Create Insights.
Insights	Delete Insights	Delete Insights.
Insights	Invoke Insights Actions	Choose and run an Action from the Actions menu for an Insight.
Insights	Manage Insight Assignee	Change the user that is assigned to an Insight.
Insights	Manage Insight Signals	Add Signals to Insights; remove Signals from Insights.
Insights	Manage Insight Status	Change the status of an Insight.
Insights	Manage Insight Tags	Add and delete tags assigned to Insights.
Content	View Rules	View Cloud SIEM rules.
Content	Manage Rules	Create, edit, and delete Cloud SIEM rules.
Content	View Threat Intelligence	View threat intel sources in Cloud SIEM.
Content	Manage Threat Intelligence	Create, edit, and delete threat intel sources.
Content	View Match Lists	View Match Lists.
Content	Manage Match Lists	Create, edit, and delete Match Lists.
Content	View File Analysis	View file analysis (YARA) rules.
Content	Manage File Analysis	Create, edit, and delete file analysis (YARA) rules.
Content	View Custom Insights	View custom Insight configurations.
Content	Manage Custom Insights	Create, edit, and delete custom Insight configurations.
Content	View Network Blocks	View network blocks.
Content	Manage Network Blocks	Create, edit, and delete network blocks.
Content	View Suppressed Entities	View suppressed Entities.
Content	Manage Suppressed Entities	Suppress and unsuppress Entities.
Configuration	View Mappings	View log mappings and ingest mappings.
Configuration	Manage Mappings	Create, edit, and delete log mappings and ingest mappings.
Configuration	View Workflow	View Insight detection settings, custom Insight statuses, custom Insight resolutions, and tag schemas.
Configuration	Manage Workflow	Create, edit, and delete Insight detection settings, custom Insight statuses and resolutions, and tag schemas.
Configuration	View Context Actions	View Context Actions.
Configuration	Manage Context Actions	Create, edit, and delete Context Actions.
Configuration	View Actions	View Actions.
Configuration	Manage Actions	Create, edit, and delete Actions.
Configuration	View Enrichments	View Enrichments.
Configuration	Manage Enrichments	Upload Insight, Signal, and Entity enrichments using the Cloud SIEM API.
Configuration	View Custom Entity Types	View custom Entity types.
Configuration	Manage Custom Entity Types	Create, edit, and delete custom Entity types.
Configuration	View Entity	View Entities.
Configuration	Manage Entity	Create, edit, and delete Entities.
Configuration	View Entity Normalization	View the configurations on Cloud SIEM’s Domain Normalization page.
Configuration	Manage Entity Normalization	Update the configurations on Cloud SIEM’s Domain Normalization page.
Configuration	View Entity Criticality	View Entity Criticalities.
Configuration	Manage Entity Criticality	Create, edit, and delete Entity Criticalities.
Configuration	View Tag Schemas	View tag schemas.
Configuration	Manage Tag Schemas	Create, edit, and delete schema key tags, which can be attached to Insights, Signals, Entities, and Rules.
Configuration	Manage Favorite Fields	Add and remove favorite fields by clicking the star icon next to the fields in Cloud SIEM Records.
Configuration	View Entity Groups	View Entity Groups.
Configuration	Manage Entity Groups	Create, edit, and delete Entity Groups.
Configuration	View Automations	View automations.
Configuration	Manage Automations	Create, edit, and delete automations.
Configuration	Execute Automations	Run automations.