Manage break-glass access

To give end users temporary access to sensitive resources, you can use either break-glass users, or configure nested groups.

Break-glass users

Admins and group owners can add break-glass users to groups by editing the group, then select Break-glass users in the sidebar.

These users can give themselves temporary, 12-hour access to the group using an option to Break Glass on the group in the catalog.

You can only set break-glass users on groups, not other resources.

Nested groups and break-glass access

You can alternatively achieve break-glass functionality using nested groups and request configurations. To do so:

1. Let the group you want to expose access to be Target-group and dedicate another group as Breakglass-target-group. From the Inventory under Breakglass-target-group, select +Group in the Assets tab and add Target-group. Users in Breakglass-target-group now have access to Target-group.
2. Set a resource configuration for Breakglass-target-group to be requestable and auto-approved for a group determined from on-call schedules, or however you need to populate the break-glass users.
3. You can set the Target-group request configuration independently for everyday access to the resource.

This option gives you a separate break-glass access path, while letting you retain existing request configurations.