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Overview

Every person who accesses nOps has a user account that belongs to an organization. Users are assigned a role that determines what they can see and do inside the platform. Administrators and owners manage the team from Settings > Users.
Settings > Users requires admin or owner permissions to open. Members don’t see this page in Settings, but they can still update their own theme and appearance from the account menu — see Profile and preferences below.

User management page

Settings > Users has three sections for admins and owners:

My Profile

Your own profile card — from here you can:
  • Edit Profile — update your first and last name.
  • Edit Theme — open the theme settings modal to fine-tune your visual preferences (see Profile and preferences below).
  • Change your avatar — click your avatar to switch between your account photo (if you signed in with SSO or an identity provider that has one) and a set of nOps profile characters.

Organization Users

Admins and owners see the organization user list: active members, pending invitations, and each person’s role. From here they can invite users, change roles, and remove members.

Organization Roles

Admins and owners see a table of every role in the organization — built-in and custom. They can create new roles, edit custom role permissions, or delete custom roles from this section.
Roles can also be scoped to restrict which rows of cost data their holders see, not just which features they can access. See Roles and data scopes.

Built-in roles

nOps ships with three built-in roles. These cannot be edited or deleted.
The first user in a new organization is automatically assigned the Admin role. At least one admin or owner must exist at all times — you cannot demote the last one.

Custom roles

Admins can create custom roles from Settings > Users > Roles to tailor permissions for specific teams or workflows.

Creating a custom role

1

Open Roles

Navigate to Settings > Users and scroll to the Organization Roles section.
2

Click Create Role

Click Create Role to open the role creation dialog.
3

Fill in role details

Provide a name, slug (auto-generated from the name, lowercase with hyphens), and optional description.
4

Assign permissions

Check the permissions you want this role to have. Permissions are organized by category (see the Permissions reference below).
5

Save

Click Save to create the role. It is immediately available for assignment.

Editing a custom role

Select a custom role from the roles table and click Edit. You can update the name, description, and permissions. The slug cannot be changed after creation.

Deleting a custom role

Click Delete on a custom role. Any users currently assigned to the deleted role are automatically reassigned to the default Member role.
Built-in roles (Member, Admin, Owner) cannot be edited or deleted.

Permissions reference

Permissions are the building blocks behind roles. When creating or editing a custom role, you assign permissions by category. The tables below list every available permission.

Custom role permissions

The permissions available when creating or editing a role come directly from your account’s environment, so the exact list can vary. The permissions nOps ships by default include:

Platform permission levels

nOps also uses broader platform-level permissions to gate features. These are assigned to users based on their role and determine access to major areas of the platform:
Admin-level permissions (nops:administrator) implicitly include all member permissions. You do not need to assign both.

Feature access summary

The table below shows which roles have access to key platform features by default:
Creating global templates and presets, and the internal Nexus commitment management tool, are not tied to the Owner role — they require a special designation nOps grants to specific accounts.

Inviting users

1

Open the user list

Go to Settings > Users.
2

Click Invite

Click the Invite button to open the invitation dialog.
3

Enter email addresses

Type one or more email addresses. Each address receives a separate invitation.
4

Send invitations

Click Send. Each user receives an email with a link to join your organization. Invitations appear in the Pending list until accepted.
You can revoke any pending invitation before it is accepted. Revoked invitations are immediately invalidated and the recipient can no longer use the link to join.
Only work email addresses are accepted. Public email domains (gmail.com, yahoo.com, etc.) are blocked during sign-up.

Changing a user’s role

Admins can change any user’s role from the organization user list:
  1. Navigate to Settings > Users.
  2. Find the user in the list.
  3. Select a new role from the dropdown.
The change takes effect immediately. You cannot demote yourself if you are the last admin or owner — at least one must remain at all times.

Removing a user

Admins can remove users from the organization:
  1. Navigate to Settings > Users.
  2. Find the user in the list and click Remove (or the delete action).
You cannot remove yourself, and you cannot remove the last admin or owner in the organization.

Profile and preferences

Each user can customize their own profile and visual preferences. Admins cannot edit another user’s profile — only roles and membership.

Name

Update your first and last name from Settings > Users > My Profile > Edit Profile.

Avatar

Click your avatar on My Profile to open the picker. Choose your account photo (if your identity provider supplied one) or pick one of nOps’ profile character illustrations.

Theme

Everyone — members, admins, and owners — can change their theme from the account menu (click your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar) → Theme. From there you can:
  • Switch Appearance between Auto, Light, and Dark.
  • Pick a color preset, or click Shuffle for a random one.
  • Click Customize theme… to open the full theme settings modal with fine-grained sliders.
Admins and owners can also reach the same modal via Edit Theme on Settings > Users > My Profile. Fine-grained sliders (in the customize modal): Color presets (available from either the account menu or the customize modal):

Clara chat panel

The Clara overlay panel on Canvas is resizable — drag the left edge to adjust its width, or the top/bottom edges to adjust its height. Your preferred width is saved automatically and reused the next time you open Clara. There’s no separate settings form for this; just drag the panel to the size you want.

Series limit

Control the maximum number of data series rendered in canvas charts. Adjustable from 50 to 1,000 (rounded to the nearest 50). The default is 250. This can also be changed from the Command palette on any canvas.

Next: Security and authentication

Understand the sign-in methods, MFA, SSO, and data isolation features that protect your nOps account.