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title: "Account Management"
description: "Get started with Middleware Admin Settings and configure your account, projects, users, and integrations for efficient monitoring."
section: "Settings"
breadcrumb: "Settings > Overview"
canonical: "https://docs.middleware.io/features/accounts"
---
# Account Management

Administration is designed specifically for system administrators to ensure their tasks are executed with precision and efficiency. Each section transparently provides all of the necessary guides and tools for users to maintain a seamless and well-organized observability environment.

**New admin? Start with these three.** Set the account up before you invite the rest of the team.

1. **Check your profile** — Confirm your details and how you sign in
2. **Create projects and roles** — Decide how data and access are split
3. **Invite users and teams** — Bring people in with the right role from day one

## Settings

Every admin setting, grouped by what it controls. Each opens a guide to that screen in Middleware.

### People & access

Who can sign in, and what they can see and change.

- [Users](/features/accounts/users-teams) — Invite people, change their role, and remove access.
- [Teams](/features/accounts/users-teams) — Group users into teams to manage their access together.
- [Roles & Permissions](/features/accounts/roles-permission) — Decide what each role can see and change.

### Account & projects

Your own details, and how the account is organised.

- [Projects](/features/accounts/projects) — Organise services and data into projects, each with its own keys.

### Cost & data

What you pay, what you send, and how to control it.

- [Billing](/features/accounts/billing) — Your plan, payment method and invoices.
- [Usage](/features/accounts/usage) — Track ingestion across the account against your plan.
- [Ingestion Controls](/features/pipeline/ingestion-control) — Filter or drop data before it counts towards usage.

## More in Administration

Sign in with your identity provider.

- [**Single sign-on**](/features/accounts/sso/okta) — Set up SAML sign-in with Okta or Microsoft Entra ID.

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