---
title: "Create role"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/roles"
tags: ["Roles"]
---

# Create role

`POST /api/v2/roles`

Create a new role for your organization.

The following read permissions are automatically added to every new role, even if they are not included in the request:

- Dashboards Read
- Notebooks Read
- Monitors Read
- APM Read
- Vulnerability Management Read
- RUM Apps Read
- Incidents Read
- SLOs Read
- CI Visibility Read
- CD Visibility Read

## Request body

- RoleCreateRequest — Create a role.
  - `data` RoleCreateData, required — Data related to the creation of a role.
    - `attributes` RoleCreateAttributes, required — Attributes of the created role.
      - `created_at` string, date-time — Creation time of the role.
      - `modified_at` string, date-time — Time of last role modification.
      - `name` string, required — Name of the role.
      - `receives_permissions_from` string[] — The managed role from which this role automatically inherits new permissions. Specify one of the following: "Datadog Admin Role", "Datadog Standard Role", or "Datadog Read Only Role". If empty or not specified, the role does not automatically inherit permissions from any managed role.
    - `relationships` RoleRelationships — Relationships of the role object.
      - `permissions` RelationshipToPermissions — Relationship to multiple permissions objects.
        - `data` RelationshipToPermissionData[] — Relationships to permission objects.
          - `id` string — ID of the permission.
          - `type` 'permissions' — Permissions resource type.
    - `type` 'roles' — Roles type.

## Response `200`

OK

- RoleCreateResponse — Response containing information about a created role.
  - `data` RoleCreateResponseData — Role object returned by the API.
    - `attributes` RoleCreateAttributes — Attributes of the created role.
      - `created_at` string, date-time — Creation time of the role.
      - `modified_at` string, date-time — Time of last role modification.
      - `name` string, required — Name of the role.
      - `receives_permissions_from` string[] — The managed role from which this role automatically inherits new permissions. Specify one of the following: "Datadog Admin Role", "Datadog Standard Role", or "Datadog Read Only Role". If empty or not specified, the role does not automatically inherit permissions from any managed role.
    - `id` string — The unique identifier of the role.
    - `relationships` RoleResponseRelationships — Relationships of the role object returned by the API.
      - `permissions` RelationshipToPermissions — Relationship to multiple permissions objects.
        - `data` RelationshipToPermissionData[] — Relationships to permission objects.
          - `id` string — ID of the permission.
          - `type` 'permissions' — Permissions resource type.
    - `type` 'roles', required — Roles type.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `403` — Authentication error
- `429` — Too many requests

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[API](https://skmtc.net/datadog/apis/api-v2.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/datadog/apis/api-v2/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/datadog/api-v2/versions/da68bf029e4c/schema)