--- title: How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud | daily.dev description: A guide to scaling access control in Grafana Cloud using a layered model combining SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and LBAC. Using a fictional company (AcmeCloud) as an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-scale-access-control-in-grafana-cloud-lf6jfyc79 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud | daily.dev og:description: A guide to scaling access control in Grafana Cloud using a layered model combining SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and LBAC. Using a fictional company (AcmeCloud) as an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-scale-access-control-in-grafana-cloud-lf6jfyc79 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lF6jFyC79.png og:image:alt: How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud **[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A guide to scaling access control in Grafana Cloud using a layered model combining SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and LBAC. Using a fictional company (AcmeCloud) as an example, it walks through how to automate user provisioning via SCIM, assign permissions through basic roles and team memberships, restrict dashboard visibility with folder permissions, and enforce data-level tenant isolation using label-based access control (LBAC). The result is a scalable multi-tenant access strategy that avoids manual overhead while maintaining security boundaries. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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