# Graph Roles and Protected Variants Are Now Available in Studio

DevFeed: [Graph Roles and Protected Variants Are Now Available in Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/graph-roles-and-protected-variants-are-now-available-in-studio-23334.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/graphql-roles-and-protected-variants>)

Author: Danielle Man

Published: 2021-01-27T08:27:09Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [API keys](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api-keys.md>), [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [api-keys](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-keys.md>), [graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphs.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo Studio expands roles and permissions with a new Graph Admin role, graph-level role overrides, hidden graphs, role-based API keys, and protected variants that restrict mutations to admin-level users or keys.

## Source excerpt

Happy New Year, everyone! Today, we are excited to share a significant expansion of the roles and permissions controls available in Studio. With these updates, you can confidently on-board more teams to your graph by ensuring that everyone has just the level of access they need. Building off the five user roles we introduced last fall: - We have added a sixth role option, Graph Admin, that you can assign to users in your organization.