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The "Update a user" action allows you to modify existing user profiles in Grafana without accessing the admin interface. This is particularly useful for maintaining user data consistency when details change in your source systems, such as HR databases or identity providers.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required dropdown for Grafana authentication), Resource (set to "User"), Operation (set to "Update"), User ID (required text field supporting expressions for dynamic input), and Update Fields (expandable section to add specific properties to modify like name, email, login).

Use cases: Sync user email addresses when updated in your company directory, update user display names after name changes, modify user details based on role changes in external systems. This action shines when integrated with HR workflows—trigger it whenever employee data changes in BambooHR, Workday, or similar platforms to keep Grafana user profiles current.

The "Get many users" action retrieves a list of user accounts from your Grafana instance. It's essential for auditing, reporting, and building workflows that need to iterate over your user base.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource (set to "User"), Operation (set to "Get Many"), Return All (toggle switch determining whether to fetch all users or limit results), and Limit (numeric input specifying maximum users to retrieve, default 50, active when "Return All" is disabled).

Use cases: Generate weekly user audit reports sent to Slack or email, compare Grafana users against your identity provider to find orphaned accounts, feed user lists into subsequent workflow steps for bulk operations.

💡 Pro tip: Combine this with a filter node in n8n to identify users who haven't logged in recently, then trigger cleanup workflows automatically.

The "Delete a user" action permanently removes a user account from Grafana. Use this for offboarding workflows or cleaning up test accounts.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("User"), Operation ("Delete"), and User ID (required text field supporting dynamic expressions).

Use cases: Automatically remove Grafana access when employees leave (triggered by HR system events), clean up test or temporary user accounts after specific time periods, sync user deletions from your identity provider to Grafana.

⚠️ Important: Deletion is permanent. Consider building a confirmation step or logging mechanism in your workflow before executing this action in production.

The "Remove a team member" action removes a specific user from a Grafana team without deleting their overall account. This is ideal for managing project-based access where users move between teams.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team Member"), Operation ("Remove"), User Name or ID (required, supports expressions), and Team Name or ID (required, supports expressions).

Use cases: Remove engineers from project monitoring teams when they're reassigned, sync team membership changes from project management tools (Jira, Asana), clean up team access when projects conclude. This action pairs well with project lifecycle triggers—when a project status changes to "Completed" in your PM tool, automatically remove all members from the associated Grafana team.

The "Get many team members" action retrieves the list of users belonging to a specific Grafana team. Use it for membership audits, reporting, or as a precursor to bulk team operations.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team Member"), Operation ("Get Many"), Team Name or ID (optional but necessary to target a specific team), Return All (toggle for fetching all members vs. limited results), and Limit (numeric cap on returned members, default 50, active when "Return All" is off).

Use cases: Audit team composition for compliance reporting, verify expected members are present before sending team notifications, compare current membership against expected rosters from other systems.

The "Add a team member" action assigns a user to a specific Grafana team, granting them access to that team's dashboards and resources.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team Member"), Operation ("Add"), User Name or ID (required, supports dynamic input), and Team Name or ID (required, supports dynamic input).

Use cases: Auto-add developers to monitoring teams when assigned to new projects, onboard new hires to appropriate teams based on their role/department, sync team membership from Slack channels or GitHub teams. This action is powerful for onboarding automation. When a new engineer joins in your HR system, trigger a workflow that adds them to all relevant Grafana teams based on their department and role.

The "Get many teams" action retrieves a list of teams from your Grafana instance. Essential for auditing team structures and building dynamic workflows.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team"), Operation ("Get Many"), Return All (toggle for complete vs. limited results), Limit (maximum teams to retrieve, default 50), and Filters (section for adding search criteria to narrow results by name or other metadata).

Use cases: Generate organizational reports of all Grafana teams, find teams matching specific naming patterns (e.g., all teams starting with "prod-"), feed team lists into subsequent workflow nodes for iteration.

The "Get a team" action retrieves detailed information about a single, specific team using its ID.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team"), Operation ("Get"), and Team ID (required text field for the unique team identifier).

Use cases: Fetch team details before performing updates, verify team existence as part of validation workflows, retrieve team metadata for logging or reporting.

The "Delete a team" action permanently removes a team from Grafana. All team memberships are dissolved, though individual user accounts remain intact.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team"), Operation ("Delete"), and Team ID (required text field for the team to delete).

Use cases: Clean up teams for decommissioned projects, remove temporary teams created for specific initiatives, sync team deletions from organizational structure changes.

⚠️ Warning: Team deletion removes all associated permissions. Ensure members have alternative access before deleting teams in production environments.

The "Create a team" action provisions a new team in Grafana. Teams are fundamental for organizing access to dashboards and managing permissions at scale.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team"), Operation ("Create"), Name (required text field for the team name), and Additional Fields (expandable section for optional properties like email or other team metadata).

Use cases: Automatically create monitoring teams when new projects kick off, provision teams for new customers in multi-tenant environments, standardize team creation with consistent naming conventions. Combine with "Add a team member" to create fully populated teams in a single workflow execution.

The "Update a team" action modifies an existing team's properties, such as name or associated metadata.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Team"), Operation ("Update"), Team ID (required, supports expressions), and Update Fields (section for specifying which properties to change like name, email, etc.).

Use cases: Rename teams when projects are rebranded, update team metadata to reflect organizational changes, sync team names with external project management systems.

The "Update a dashboard" action modifies an existing Grafana dashboard's configuration. This is powerful for maintaining dashboard consistency across environments or applying bulk changes.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Dashboard"), Operation ("Update"), Dashboard UID or URL (required text field identifying the dashboard), and Update Fields (section for specifying properties to modify like title, folder, tags, panels, etc.).

Use cases: Sync dashboard configurations from a staging to production environment, bulk update dashboard titles or tags based on new naming standards, apply configuration changes across multiple dashboards programmatically.

💡 TIP: Export your "golden" dashboard configuration and use this action to enforce standards across all dashboards matching certain criteria.

The "Get many dashboards" action retrieves a list of dashboards from Grafana. Use it for discovery, auditing, or as the first step in bulk dashboard operations.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Dashboard"), Operation ("Get Many"), Return All (toggle for complete vs. limited results), Limit (maximum dashboards to retrieve, default 50), and Filters (section for narrowing results by criteria like name, folder, or tags).

Use cases: Audit all dashboards in your organization for compliance, find dashboards matching specific tags for bulk operations, generate inventory reports of monitoring assets.

The "Get a dashboard" action retrieves the full configuration of a specific dashboard, including all panels, queries, and settings.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Dashboard"), Operation ("Get"), and Dashboard UID or URL (required text field for the dashboard identifier).

Use cases: Back up dashboard configurations to external storage, compare dashboard versions before and after changes, extract dashboard settings for replication to other instances.

The "Delete a dashboard" action permanently removes a dashboard from Grafana. Use with caution in production environments.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Dashboard"), Operation ("Delete"), and Dashboard UID or URL (required text field for the dashboard to delete).

Use cases: Clean up obsolete dashboards for decommissioned services, remove duplicate or test dashboards automatically, sync dashboard deletions across multiple Grafana instances. Consider implementing a "soft delete" pattern: move dashboards to an "Archive" folder first, then delete archived items after a retention period.

The "Create a dashboard" action provisions a new dashboard in Grafana. This is essential for automated dashboard creation when new services, environments, or monitoring needs arise.

Key parameters: Credential to connect with (required), Resource ("Dashboard"), Operation ("Create"), Title (required text field for the dashboard name), and Additional Fields (section for optional properties like folder placement, tags, or initial panel configurations).

Use cases: Automatically create monitoring dashboards when new microservices are deployed, provision standardized dashboards for new customers in SaaS platforms, generate template-based dashboards triggered by CI/CD pipelines. This action pairs powerfully with deployment workflows. When your CI/CD pipeline deploys a new service, trigger n8n to create a monitoring dashboard with pre-configured panels for that service's metrics. Explore more workflow creation possibilities to maximize your automation potential.