Identity and Access Management

Manage vMonitor Platform access accounts

You can use 3 types of accounts to access vMonitor Platform. Details of these 3 types include:

• Root user account: The first initial account to access VNG Cloud with full access to all resource services on VNG Cloud.

• IAM user account (User account): An account created from a single Root user account with access rights depending on the access permission policy set from the Root user account.

• Service account: Account used by an application/machine, making authorized API calls and accessing specified resources on VNG Cloud.

Before you can use the two types of IAM user accounts and Service Accounts , you need to follow these steps:

• Create an IAM user account/ Service Account.

• Initialize policy

• Link the policy to the IAM user account/ Service Account.

For details, please refer to: IAM for vMonitor .

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vMonitor Platform resources support decentralized access

We provide you with decentralized access resources including:

• alarm

• api-key

• api-test

• app

• archive

• certificate

• dashboard. dashboard

• host

• location. location

• log2metric-metric

• log-project

• metric-unit-mapping-user

• notification. notification

• parser-rule

• pipeline. pipeline

• processor. processor

• processor-group

• refill

• resources

• saved-query

• vas-host

• vbackup-host

• vdb-host

• vlb-host

• vlb-log-mapping

• vserver-host

• vMonitor Platform-host

• vMonitor Platform-log-mapping

• widgets

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Manage access to vMonitor Platform resources

After creating an account, access vMonitor Platform according to the instructions above. To access your resources (Metric quota, Log project,...), you can use vMonitor Platform accounts including Root user account (Root User Account), IAM user account (IAM User Account) and Service Account account to access resources via user interfaces (access channels): vMonitor Platform Portal, API, 3rd party softwares.

For details, please refer to: IAM for vMonitor .