Roles & permissions

Spectra controls access at two levels. Understanding the split is the key to giving everyone exactly the access they need — and nothing more.

The two levels

• Organization roles govern the plan and billing — who owns the account and who can pay for it. They sit above every workspace.
• Workspace roles govern monitoring — who can create monitors, manage members, and change settings inside a single workspace. They’re assigned independently per workspace, so the same person can be an Admin in one workspace and a Viewer in another.

A person can hold an organization role, one or more workspace roles, or both.

All roles at a glance

Level	Role	What it can do
Organization	Org Owner	Full control of the org, plan, and every workspace. One per org, transferable.
Organization	Billing Admin	Manages plan, payment, and invoices. No monitoring or member access.
Workspace	Workspace Owner	Full control of one workspace, including delete and transfer. One per workspace.
Workspace	Admin	Runs a workspace — monitors, members, integrations, settings. Can’t delete it.
Workspace	Member	Creates and edits monitors and handles incidents. No member or settings access.
Workspace	Viewer	Read-only access to a workspace’s monitors and status pages.

Custom roles with fine-grained permissions are available on the Enterprise plan. On all other plans the roles above are fixed.

Where to manage roles

• Organization roles live under Settings → Organization → Members & roles.
• Workspace roles live under Settings → Workspace → Members (and are also set when you invite someone).

Next steps

• Organization roles: Owner & Billing Admin
• Workspace roles: Owner, Admin, Member, Viewer
• Workspaces & how they work
• Members, seats & invitations