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Managed Auth is the recommended path for handling user authentication across CoreWeave.
Managed Authentication, also called Managed Auth, is a series of CoreWeave-provided services that abstract authentication to offer customers flexible, simple, and secure methods of authentication management. The Managed Auth suite includes: These services authenticate you to your CoreWeave organization and top-level resources. This page introduces the Managed Auth suite for administrators and users who need to understand how authentication works across CoreWeave before configuring access.
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. To export metrics or use CoreWeave Grafana, you must use the Managed Auth methods.

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Other authentication methods for CKS clusters

Although Managed Auth is the recommended path, CKS clusters allow additional methods of authentication.
You must use Managed Auth to create new CKS clusters or VPCs. No other authentication method is supported for these actions. Only existing CKS clusters allow alternative authentication methods.
Last modified on September 29, 2026