Organization and Workspace Structure
Design and build your LogScale repository and view hierarchy
New to LogScale Organization?
Learn how LogScale organizes data before you start building. Understand repositories, views, and how organizations work. This foundation helps you design a structure that supports your team's access and data needs before you configure anything.
- Repositories vs Views
- Organization Hierarchy
- Multi-tenant Design Patterns
- Repository and View Permissions
Ready to Build?
You understand how LogScale structures data and are ready to implement. Create repositories, build views that connect to them, and apply permissions to control access for your teams and organization.
- Creating Repositories
- Creating and Connecting Views
- Repository and View Settings
- Applying Permissions to Workspaces
Workflow 1: New to LogScale Organization?
Build a solid understanding of how LogScale structures data and access before configuring anything. A well-planned structure is easier to manage, secure, and scale.
Understanding Organizations
Learn how the organization layer governs your LogScale environment
Understand Organizations
guideintermediateLearn how organizations work as the top-level container in LogScale. Understand how the organization hierarchy governs users, repositories, and settings across your environment.
Organization Owners
guideintermediateLearn what organization owners can do and why the ownership model matters for administration and access control.
Repositories vs Views
Understand the difference between storing data and querying across it
Manage Repositories and Views
guideintermediateLearn the distinction between repositories (where data is stored and indexed) and views (virtual overlays that query across one or more repositories without storing data).
View Connections
guideintermediateUnderstand how views connect to repositories. Learn how a single view can query across multiple repositories and how connection filters shape what data is visible.
Multi-tenant Design Patterns
Plan a repository and view structure that supports your teams and tenants
Permission Strategy Patterns
guideintermediateLearn multi-tenant design considerations including when to use separate repositories versus views, how to apply the principle of least privilege, and how to plan for team-based access.
Repository and View Permissions
guideintermediateUnderstand how permissions at the repository and view level control data access. Learn how permissions are scoped independently and are not inherited between repositories and views.
Data Organization
Learn how tags and datasources organize data within repositories
Datasources
guideintermediateUnderstand how datasources and tags organize data within a repository. Learn how tag fields determine how data is grouped and how this affects query performance and access control.
Data Retention
guideintermediateLearn how retention policies control how long data is kept. Plan retention settings as part of your repository design to balance storage costs with compliance requirements.
Workflow 2: Ready to Build?
Create your repository and view structure, connect views to data sources, and apply permissions to control access for your organization.
Create Repositories
Set up repositories to store and index your data
Create a Repository or View
guideintermediateStep-by-step instructions for creating a new repository. Configure the name, description, and type. Set up the repository before connecting data sources or assigning access.
Basic Repository Settings
guideintermediateConfigure the name, description, usage tags, and type for your repository after creation. Understanding these settings helps you manage a large number of repositories.
Configure Data Retention
guideintermediateSet ingest and storage retention limits for your repository. Plan retention policies based on your compliance requirements and storage budget.
Create and Connect Views
Build views that query across one or more repositories
Create a View
guideintermediateStep-by-step instructions for creating a view. Choose which repositories the view connects to and configure the connection filters that shape what data is visible through the view.
Manage View Connections
guideintermediateAdd or update the repository connections for a view. Configure filters to expose only the relevant subset of data from each connected repository.
View Settings
guideintermediateConfigure the name, description, and default query for a view. Set a default search to give users a useful starting point when they open the view.
Configure Settings
Tune repository and view settings for your organization's needs
Repository and View Settings
conceptintermediateOverview of all available settings for repositories and views. Use this as a reference when configuring ingest tokens, data sources, tag groupings, and other repository-level features.
Ingest Tokens
guideintermediateCreate and manage ingest tokens that allow data shippers and integrations to send data to a repository. Each token can be scoped to a specific parser.
Datasources and Tags
guideintermediateReview and manage datasources within a repository. Understand how tag fields organize data and how datasource labels help you identify data origins.
Apply Permissions to Repositories and Views
Control who can access each repository and view
Repository and View Permissions
guideintermediateAssign roles to users and groups at the repository or view level. Use this to control who can query data, manage settings, and ingest data into each workspace.
View-level User Permissions
guideintermediateManage user and group access at the view level independently from the underlying repositories. Grant access to the view without exposing the source repository directly.
Repository and View Permissions Reference
referenceintermediateComplete reference of all repository and view permissions. Use this to determine which permission to assign for specific tasks such as querying, managing settings, or ingesting data.
Configure Organization Settings
Set organization-wide defaults that apply across all repositories and views
Organization Settings
guideintermediateConfigure general, security, and user settings that apply across your entire organization. Set default behaviors for new repositories, user provisioning, and data access policies.
Organization Permissions
guideintermediateControl which users can manage the organization itself - including creating repositories, managing users and groups, and changing organization-wide settings.
Next Steps: Apply RBAC to Your Structure
Now that your workspace is built, apply role-based access control across it
Manage Roles
guideintermediateCreate and configure roles that you can assign to users and groups at the repository and view level. Well-defined roles make it straightforward to control access across a complex workspace structure.
Manage Groups
guideintermediateOrganize users into groups and assign groups to repositories and views. Group-based access is easier to manage at scale than assigning roles to individual users.