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LogScale Self-Hosted Deployment
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## Responsibilities Matrix for LogScale Cluster Operations and Ownership

The following table provides some general guidelines on levels of access required depending on role:

Role Name | Responsibilities | Access Required | Notes
--- | --- | --- | ---
System Administrator | Add or remove nodes Object storage administration Upgrade LogScale Software version Perform Emergency Upgrades Change cluster configurations Perform cluster restarts Managing firewall rules | Admin access to Servers Admin access to Object storage |
Kafka Administrator | Kafka monitoring Adding or removing Kafka nodes | Admin access to Kafka Servers LogScale user account with read access to the repository containing the humio insights dashboards | LogScale relies on a Kafka cluster to keep LogScale running, so it is important to monitor your Kafka cluster (Use Insights dashboards).
LogScale Cluster Administrator | Evict and manage nodes (see note 2) LogScale monitoring Query administration (monitoring, managing quotas and blacklists) Manage root accounts | Root privileges for the LogScale user | Monitoring is done through the insights dashboards. Collaboration with the System Administrator is needed for node management and eviction.
LogScale Organization Administrator | Create and manage repositories and views Create and manage users, roles, security policies, identity providers, IP filters, organization tokens Data administration (managing data retention and ingestion) | Admin rights for the managed organization | For clusters with only one organization, this role is often combined with the Cluster administrator role.
Repository Administrator | Manage facilities within a specific repository, but does not have access to organizational and cluster features. | Admin rights for the specified repository |
LogScale User | Search LogScale Create and manage dashboards if needed and permitted | Create and manage Automations (Alerts, Scheduled Searches, Actions, etc.) if needed and permitted |

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