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Managed Auth is the recommended path for handling user authentication across CoreWeave.
Managed Authentication, simply called Managed Auth, is a series of CoreWeave-provided services that abstract authentication in order to offer customers flexible, simple, and secure methods of authentication management. The Managed Auth suite is comprised of: These services are used to authenticate to your CoreWeave organization and top-level resources.
To learn more about user permissions and user authorization, see IAM Access Policies and Legacy User Permissions.

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Managed Auth and metrics

Grafana metrics are gated behind Managed Auth services. In order to export metrics or use CoreWeave Grafana, the Managed Auth methods must be used.

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Other authentication methods for CKS clusters

CKS Clusters, specifically, do allow for additional methods of authentication.
No other authentication method is supported to create new CKS Clusters or VPCs. Only CKS Clusters that have already been created allow for alternative authentication methods.
Last modified on April 2, 2026