docs-v2/content/v2.0/UI/organizations.md

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Managing organizations	Describes how to manage organizations.	v2_0 name weight parent Managing organizations 1 Placeholder parent

Everything is scoped by/contained within organization--dashboards, tasks, buckets, users, !!collectors and scrapers!!.

To create an organization:

1. Click the Organizations tab in the navigation bar.
2. Click + Create Organization
3. Enter a name for your organization.
4. Click Create.

To manage an organization's members:

Organizations have "owners" and "members".

1. Click the Organizations tab in the navigation bar.
2. Click on the name of an organization. All of the organization's members appear in the Members tab.
3. Select a member from the list or search to filter the list.
4. ?? Edit members, remove members, invite users to be a member

To manage an organization's buckets:

A bucket is a named location where data is stored that has a retention policy. It’s similar to an InfluxDB v1.x “database,” but is a combination of both a database and a retention policy. Each bucket can only have one retention policy.

1. Click the Organizations tab in the navigation bar.
2. Click on the name of an organization, then select the Buckets tab. All of the organization's buckets appear.
3. To create a bucket, click +Create in the upper right.

• Enter a name for your bucket in the Name field.
• In the How often to clear data? field:
  • Select Never to retain data forever.
  • Select Periodically to define a specific retention policy.

4. To update a bucket's name or retention policy, click the name of the bucket from the list.
5. Click Update to save.
6. ??Configure data sources tied to each bucket, delete bucket

To view an organization's dashboards:

1. Click the Organizations tab in the navigation bar.
2. Click on the name of an organization, then select the Dashboards tab. All of the organization's dashboards appear.
3. Click on the name of the dashboard to view it.

For details on editing dashboards, see <>

Tasks (/organizations/orgnamehere/tasks)

• User can see all tasks owned by this org

Options (/organizations/orgnamehere/options) mockup says settings

• Only owners can see this tab
• Owner can change name of Organization
• Owner can modify permissions of an organization
• There will be more options here in the future
• Owner can disband organization