Splunk Overview on User roles

Splunk roles decide what the user can see, do, interact with Splunk with the access. 

    • Admin: role is the powerful role in the list of roles.
      •  install app
      • ingest data
      • create knowledge objects for all users
    • Power: create and share knowledge objects for users of an app and do real time searches.
      •  this is in general people get to create alert and dashboards.
    • User: can see only their own knowledge objects and those shared with them.

Each Organization has a config on having the types of user roles based on the hierarchy, billing, usage and may not be same across!
Note: Splunk enterprise roles varies bit form Splunk cloud roles including few more cloud specific roles.