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Requesting access to analytics-privatedata-users for iberker
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Description

Requestor provided information and prerequisites

Complete ALL items below as the individual person who is requesting access:

  • Wikimedia developer account username: Ilan Berker
  • Email address: iberker@wikimedia.org
  • SSH public key (must be a separate key from Wikimedia cloud SSH access):
  • Requested group membership:
  • Reason for access: Access to superset dashboards
  • Name of approving party (manager for WMF/WMDE staff):
  • Ensure you have signed the L3 Wikimedia Server Access Responsibilities document:
  • Please coordinate obtaining a comment of approval on this task from the approving party.

SRE Clinic Duty Confirmation Checklist for Access Requests

This checklist should be used on all access requests to ensure that all steps are covered, including expansion to existing access. Please double check the step has been completed before checking it off.

This section is to be confirmed and completed by a member of the SRE team.

  • - User has signed the L3 Acknowledgement of Wikimedia Server Access Responsibilities Document.
  • - User has a valid NDA on file with WMF legal. (All WMF Staff/Contractor hiring are covered by NDA. Other users can be validated via the NDA tracking sheet)
  • - User has provided the following: developer account username, email address, and full reasoning for access (including what commands and/or tasks they expect to perform)

[] - User has provided a public SSH key. This ssh key pair should only be used for WMF cluster access, and not shared with any other service (this includes not sharing with WMCS access, no shared keys.)
[] - The provided SSH key has been confirmed out of band and is verified not being used in WMCS.

  • - access request (or expansion) has sign off of WMF sponsor/manager (sponsor for volunteers, manager for wmf staff)
  • - access request (or expansion) has sign off of group approver indicated by the approval field in data.yaml

For additional details regarding access request requirements, please see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_shell_access

Event Timeline

jijiki subscribed.

@IBerker-WMF is this request solely for accessing the superset dashboards ? if that is so, adding yourself to the 'wmf' ldap group should be enough

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRE/LDAP/Groups/Request_access#Using_the_Wikimedia_Identity_Management_System

Yes, in particular I am trying to see the Metrics FY26-27 dashboard (https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/dashboard/2c53a25d-aa85-42b8-9d95-b267982218f4/). I already added myself to the 'wmf' ldap group. That got me access to superset. But when I try to see the Metrics FY26-27 dashboard, all the charts time out. Someone suggested I ask for analytics-privatedata-users access.

@IBerker-WMF since that is the case, please follow the instructions in the task, specifically, please sign the L3 Wikimedia Server Access and ask your manager to communicate their approval on this task, so we can move forward

I signed the L3 document, but I don't really need production server access, I need analytics-privatedata-users access. Does that require server access?

Arnoldokoth changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Aug 5 2026, 9:37 AM
jcrespo subscribed.

I don't really need production server access

No worries. No SSH access is scheduled, but this is a privileged LDAP access request, and it requires special UNIX grants for web access, hence the extra requirements. Still waiting on your manager's approval.

I signed the L3 document, but I don't really need production server access, I need analytics-privatedata-users access. Does that require server access?

It depends. There are 3 levels of "analytics-privatedata-access'.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRE/Clinic_Duty/Access_requests#analytics-privatedata-users

If that seems confusing that is T405517.

Thank you @SCherukuwada .

I will deploy Web/Ldap only/ssh-less access now (the lowest privileged level) -which is implicitly approved by employees that need it and whose manager approves it -by the owners of analytics-privatedata-users, as that what makes sense for the original request: "private dashboarding access", and they can request in the future access extensions, if not enough.

@IBerker-WMF While I process your request, may I ask you to link the ilanberker account to here on phabricator as your LDAP/developer account, to ease future requests.

Change #1324200 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jcrespo; author: Jcrespo):

[operations/puppet@production] admin: Add ilanberker as an ssh-less user with analytics privatedata

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1324200

Change #1324200 merged by Jcrespo:

[operations/puppet@production] admin: Add ilanberker as an ssh-less user with analytics privatedata

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1324200

Access has been deployed, it will take up to 30 minutes to propagate to all servers. After that, please test your new access and confirm it works as intended on the request. You can reopen this task or talk to the person on clinic duty (IRC Libera chat, #wikimedia-operations channel) to ask questions or help you debug any issue you have with this access request.