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Card #3540 · Grafana

Difficulty accessing and using current user identity in variables and API

Users are struggling to retrieve the identity of the currently logged-in user to use as a variable in queries or via API. There is specific friction when trying to use user emails or usernames to filter data from backends like InfluxDB and Postgres.

GrafanaUpdated 1d ago0.19
Pain score
0.19/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.89
distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00
freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.79
upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.25
willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 5 verified quotes
Is there any possibility letting a variable return the name of the user (grafana), who is currently logged in?
Forum·@sk1194··source ↗
Is there any way to use details for the “current grafana user” in a query against an influxdb back end, whether their email address or username?
Forum·@shensi··source ↗
I have been trying to use the __user.email variable with no luck.
Forum·@rflott··source ↗
How to check the user existence in Grafana?
Forum·@sraghavendra1512··source ↗
But I want to get the current user in my server or make it a variable in grafana,it does not work
Forum·@bonsh298··source ↗

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