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  "request": "Triage Jira ticket SREIN-1678: Requesting Grafana Service Account",
  "references": [
    "https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/SREIN-1678"
  ],
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    "issue": "SREIN-1678"
  }
}

summary

SREIN-1678 is a low-urgency access request from the Tabstack team asking SRE-IN to provision a Grafana service account (Editor role) named "stafford-brooke-claude" so that an automated/AI agent ("claude code") can query the team's Yardstick Grafana dashboards. The ticket is in Backlog with no comments and no linked runbook/design doc. Standard service-account provisioning triage applies: verify requester identity/authorization, confirm least-privilege role choice, and check for an existing Grafana SA provisioning runbook/process before fulfilling.

findings

• Request type: new Grafana service account for a non-human/automation client (an AI coding assistant), not a human user login.
• Requested role is Editor, which grants write/modify permissions on dashboards. For a bot/automation account that only needs to 'interact with' and presumably read Grafana graphs, Editor may be broader than necessary; Viewer or a scoped API-key/service-account with read-only permissions might suffice unless the agent needs to create/edit dashboards.
• Ticket lacks key provisioning details commonly required for SA requests: which Grafana org/instance hosts 'yardstick' dashboards, who owns/approves access for the Tabstack team, and expected token lifetime/rotation policy.
• Ticket is marked not urgent and currently unassigned/untouched (Backlog status, 0 comments), so no immediate SLA risk, but it should be routed to the team owning Grafana SA provisioning.
• No runbook or design doc was linked in the ticket, so Confluence lookup could not be performed; triage relies on standard service-account request practices.

proposed actions

Thanks for the request! A couple of clarifying questions before we provision this Grafana service account:

1. Which Grafana instance/organization hosts the 'yardstick' dashboards (URL or instance name)?
2. Can you confirm the account is only for read/query access to existing dashboards, or does 'claude code' also need to create/modify dashboards or alerts? If read-only is sufficient, we'd recommend a Viewer role (or a scoped read-only API token) instead of Editor, per least-privilege practice for automation/bot accounts.
3. Who is the approving manager/team lead for the Tabstack team sign-off on this access grant?
4. Any preference/requirement on token rotation or expiry for this service account?

Once confirmed, we can provision the Grafana service account 'stafford-brooke-claude' with the appropriate role. Since this is marked not urgent, we'll pick it up in normal backlog order after these details are confirmed.

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