Card #3542 · Grafana
Difficulty resetting or recovering deleted admin account
Users are struggling to reset the admin password or recover the super admin role after it has been accidentally deleted. The standard CLI reset command often fails with 'User not found' errors or configuration issues, forcing users to manually edit the SQLite database or use the API.
Pain score
0.23/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.58upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
I made the same mistake, and deleted all super admins. Final solution was editing field is_admin in users tab inside file grafana.db from 0 to 1 for desired user.
This is definitely a Grafana bug, once you created a normal admin user, you could delete the super admin user.
I try to reset my admin password and end up with the error Error: Could not read user from database. Error: User not found
the reset-admin command is a bit special and bit buggy. It works by starting a Grafana instance and because of that it needs to know where the config file is
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