# Emergency Access

*This feature is in Beta.*

Emergency Access (also known as "break-glass") provides a way to grant temporary elevated access during incidents or emergencies.

## When to Use

* **Production incidents** — An engineer needs temporary admin access to resolve an outage
* **Compliance investigations** — An auditor needs temporary access to review data
* **Urgent support** — A support agent needs elevated access to help a customer

## How It Works

1. Navigate to **Access Control > Emergency Access**
2. Click **Request Emergency Access**
3. Specify the reason, duration, and level of access needed
4. Access is granted immediately with automatic expiration
5. All actions during the emergency session are logged for audit

## Automatic Safeguards

* Access automatically expires after the specified duration
* All actions taken during emergency access are flagged in the audit log
* A notification is sent to administrators when emergency access is activated


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