cx-platform-admin

Platform Admin Skill

Use this skill for managing access, authentication, and authorization in Coralogix. It covers API key management, role and scope definitions, user administration, team groups, and IP access restrictions.

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Destructive Operation Safety

All write operations (create, update, delete, set-idp, set-active, set-status) require interactive confirmation. The CLI will prompt before executing. To skip the prompt in scripts, pass --yes.

IMPORTANT: NEVER pass --yes without explicit user approval. Before executing any write operation:

1. Describe the exact operation to the user (what will be created/modified/deleted)
2. Wait for the user to confirm
3. Only then execute with --yes

Read-only operations (list, get, search, system, sp-params, send-data-keys) do not require confirmation and can be run freely.

Read-Only Mode

Use --read-only (or CX_READ_ONLY=1) to block all write operations at the CLI level. This is useful for safe exploration - you can query any IAM resource without risk of accidental modifications.

Agent Mode

When running inside an AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.), cx automatically detects the agent environment and fails fast on write operations instead of hanging on a stdin prompt. The error message instructs you to get user confirmation first, then re-run with --yes.

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CLI Commands

API Keys

Roles & Scopes

Users & Groups

IP Access

All commands support -o json for structured output and -p <profile> for profile selection.

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Access Audit Workflow

Use this workflow to produce a comprehensive access report:

Step 1: List All Users

cx iam users search -o json
cx iam users search -o json | jq '[.[] | {id, name: .user_name, status, role_ids}]'

Step 2: List Roles

cx iam roles list -o json
cx iam roles system -o json

Cross-reference user role IDs with role definitions to understand permissions.

Step 3: List Groups and Memberships

cx iam groups list -o json
cx iam groups list -o json | jq '[.[] | {id, name, member_count: (.members | length)}]'

For each group, check members:

cx iam groups users <group-id> -o json

Step 4: Inventory API Keys

cx iam api-keys list -o json
cx iam api-keys admin list -o json
cx iam api-keys send-data-keys -o json

Identify old or unused keys:

cx iam api-keys list -o json | jq '[.[] | {id, name, created_at, active}] | sort_by(.created_at)'

Step 5: Check IP Restrictions

cx iam ip-access get -o json

Step 6: Cross-Reference

Produce a summary: which users have admin roles, which API keys are old, which groups have broad access.

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API Key Rotation

Safe key rotation workflow:

1. List current keys: cx iam api-keys list -o json
2. Identify keys to rotate: filter by age or name
3. Create replacement key: cx iam api-keys create --from-file new-key.json --yes (after user approval)
4. Deploy the new key to all systems using the old key
5. Verify the new key works in all integrations
6. Delete the old key: cx iam api-keys delete <old-key-id> --yes (after user approval)

WARNING: Never delete an API key before its replacement is deployed and verified. Deleting an active key immediately breaks all integrations using it.

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Safety Callouts

Deleting API keys breaks any integration using that key immediately. Always create a replacement first.

Deactivating users (cx iam users set-status --status INACTIVE) takes effect immediately. The user loses access with no grace period.

Deleting IP access rules (cx iam ip-access delete) removes all IP restrictions immediately, potentially exposing the account.

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Key Principles

• Audit before modifying - run the full access audit workflow before making changes
• Never delete keys without replacement - create new key → deploy → verify → delete old
• Use -o json for structured reports - enables jq filtering for precise access analysis
• Multi-profile for cross-environment audits - use -p <profile> or --all-profiles to audit staging + production
• Template from existing - cx iam roles get <id> -o json > role.json before creating new roles

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Related Skills

• cx-cost-optimization - review what API keys are used for and whether they're still needed