Managing Your Account

Security Requirements and Controls

  • Personal API Token security policy

You can manage your LogScale account from anywhere in the UI by clicking on your user or account icon — the generic person icon in the screenshot — located in the top, right corner of any page. Then select Manage Your Account from the menu.

Manage Your Account

Figure 12. Manage Your Account


You can manage a few items related to your account under the Account Settings section. Below is a list of them with links to the sub-sections on this page containing more information:

General Settings

This where you can set or change your name and user name for your account. You can also set some preferences for the UI.

Personal API Token

Here you can generate Personal API tokens to use with REST and GraphQL APIs.

Appearance

This where you adjust how the UI appears; At this point, it's just whether the UI uses light or dark mode.

Sessions

You can get a list of open sessions for the current user — including inactive ones. This is a useful security feature since you can shutdown unused sessions here.

Delete Account

Although we may wish you wouldn't do so, if you want to delete your account, you can do that here.

Data Sub-Processors

Here you can view a list of CrowdStrike products and services of third-party sub-processors used by your LogScale account.

General Settings

This section allows you to change the first and last name for your account, and set the username. You can also set some UI preferences.

  1. Click the account icon and select Manage your account.

  2. In the dialog screen that appears, select General from the tree in the left margin.

    In the Personal information box there's a field labeled, First name for you to enter the first name of the user and a Last name field to specify the last name.

    The Preferences area contains preferences which can be enabled and disabled by clicking the checkboxes. These preferences impact different parts of the UI.

    The Timezone area allows Changing the Time Zone Permanently.

  3. When you finish making changes, click on the Save button to save your changes.

General Settings

Figure 13. General Settings


Personal API Token

You can create a Personal API Token to be used when querying the LogScale instance through either the REST or GraphQL APIs. To access the section click the account icon and select Manage your account. From the tree in the left margin, select Personal API Token under Account settings.

Important

Your Personal API token is only revealed once at creation. Although you cannot view a token that has already been created, you can always recreate the token by using the Reset Token button.

Appearance

This section allows you to choose the way LogScale appears in the UI, in the web browser.

  1. Click the account icon and select Manage your account.

  2. From the tree in the left margin, select Appearance under Account settings.

  3. To set the mode click on the mode, Light, Dark or Sync with system which will match the mode to that of your system.

Appearance

Figure 14. Appearance


Sessions

This section allows you to see all the sessions for your account.

To view this information:

  1. Click the account icon and select Manage your account.

  2. From the tree in the left margin, select Sessions under Account settings.

For more information, see Session Management.

Sessions

Figure 15. Sessions


Delete Account

This sections allows you delete an account when it is no longer required.

Warning

Once an account is deleted it cannot be retrieved.

  1. Click the account icon and select Manage your account.

  2. From the tree in the left margin, select Delete account under Account settings.

  3. Click Delete Account.

Delete Account

Figure 16. Delete Account


Data Sub-Processors

This section lists CrowdStrike products and services third party subprocessors of personal data. To access this information:

  1. Click the account icon and select Manage your account.

  2. From the tree in the left margin, select Delete account under Other.

Data Sub-processors

Figure 17. Data Sub-processors