Glowroot Access for Non-Admin Users

Issue

• The user encountering an issue with accessing Glowroot using roles other than administrator.
  Here are the steps performed:
  1. Started the server using the command:
  ./catalina.sh glowroot run
  2. Navigated to Control Panel > Roles and created a new regular role.
  3. Went to User and Organizations to create a user and assign the new role to this user.
  4. Signed in as the newly created user, and in a new tab attempt to access: localhost:8080/o/glowroot
• Result: The following error appeared in the Liferay logs:

  ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-3][GlowrootProxyServlet:66] nullcom.liferay.portal.kernel.security.auth.PrincipalException$MustBeCompanyAdmin: User 32902 must be the company administrator to perform the action.

Environment

• Liferay 2024 Q2.0

Resolution

• The observed behavior is the correct behaviour of the product. By default, Glowroot access is restricted to users with the administrator role only.
• If the user is interested in accessing the Glowroot with other roles (non-admin), they can create a feature request.
• Requesting a New Feature or Feature Improvement

Additional Information

• Using Glowroot with Liferay