diff --git a/docs/sources/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/rbac-fixed-basic-role-definitions/index.md b/docs/sources/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/rbac-fixed-basic-role-definitions/index.md
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--- a/docs/sources/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/rbac-fixed-basic-role-definitions/index.md
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@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ The following tables list permissions associated with basic and fixed roles.
 The following table has the existing built-in fixed role definitions. Other fixed roles might be added by plugins installed in Grafana.
 The UUID presented here can be used as an identifier for [Terraform provisioning](../rbac-terraform-provisioning).
 
+{{< admonition type="caution" >}}
+These UUIDs won't be available if your instance was created before Grafana v10.2.0.
+
+To learn how to use the roles API to determine the role UUIDs, refer to [Manage RBAC roles](/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/manage-rbac-roles/).
+{{< /admonition >}}
+
 | Fixed role                                   | UUID                                | Permissions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | -------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | `fixed:alerting:reader`                      | `fixed_O2oP1_uBFozI2i93klAkcvEWR30` | All permissions from `fixed:alerting.rules:reader` <br>`fixed:alerting.instances:reader`<br>`fixed:alerting.notifications:reader`                                                                                                                                           | Read-only permissions for all Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Alertmanager alert rules\*, alerts, contact points, and notification policies.[\*](#alerting-roles)                                                                                                                            |