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Grafana Labs partners with GitHub to enable secret scanning

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we are excited to announce we have partnered with GitHub to protect our users on public repositories via GitHub’s secret-scanning feature. Through the partnership, GitHub will notify Grafana Labs when one of the following secret types is exposed in the code of a public repository: GitHub actively monitors public repositories for leaked secrets. When a secret is detected, its hash is stored in Grafana Labs’ Secret Scanning API.

How to start monitoring your ClickHouse instance or cluster with Grafana Cloud

ClickHouse is an open source, column-oriented database management system designed for OLAP (analytical) workloads. ClickHouse supports various data formats and SQL queries, and is popular for clickstream analysis as well as log processing use cases. We are pleased to announce that ClickHouse now has a dedicated observability integration in Grafana Cloud, which makes it easy to troubleshoot issues, track potential latency, and prevent data loss.

Monitoring smart cities with Grafana, Timescale, and Sentilo

Miquel is a Project Manager at Seidor Opentrends, focused on smart cities, data, and IoT projects. Seidor Opentrends, which is headquartered in Barcelona and has offices around the world, provides end-to-end, high quality IT transformation services and serves as a consultant on open source and software architecture for municipalities throughout Spain. At Seidor OpenTrends, we build and maintain Sentilo, an open source sensor and actuator platform for smart cities.

How to manage CVE security vulnerabilities with Grafana, MergeStat, and OSV-Scanner

Patrick DeVivo is a software engineer and founder of MergeStat, an open source project that makes it possible to query the contents, history, and metadata of source code with SQL. The security posture of software supply chains has been a significant topic lately. Recent high-profile breaches have shown the importance of managing risks from third party code. Take, for example, the Log4Shell vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-44228 — Grafana Labs was not affected).

Grafana Cloud k6: What's new and what's next?

To ensure the best possible end-user experience, engineering teams must be able to seamlessly transition from performance testing to problem resolution, breaking down any silos that exist between the two. That’s why, earlier this year, Grafana Labs launched Grafana Cloud k6, a unified platform that natively integrates the Grafana k6 performance testing experience directly into Grafana Cloud.

How to monitor Snowflake with Grafana Cloud

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform that allows organizations to store, manage, and analyze large amounts of data. It offers a scalable, secure, and highly available solution that separates storage and computing resources. We already offer the Snowflake datasource plugin, which allows you to query and visualize data from your Snowflake Data Cloud on your Grafana dashboards.

How to use Argo CD to configure Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Since Kubernetes Monitoring launched in Grafana Cloud last year, we have introduced highly customizable dashboards and powerful analytics features. We’ve also focused on how to make monitoring and managing resource utilization within your fleet easier and more efficient. But what’s an easy way to add resources to your cluster while using Kubernetes Monitoring?

Why Paradigm switched to Grafana Cloud: Inside their observability stack

As the largest liquidity network in crypto, Paradigm facilitates more than $11 billion in monthly volumes, representing nearly 40% global cryptocurrency option flows. Their free-to-use platform provides a single point of access to multi-asset, multi-instrument liquidity on demand, and Software Architect Jameel Al-Aziz leads the team of developers who build and maintain the platform.

Start monitoring GitLab with our new Grafana Cloud integration

GitLab is a popular open source DevSecOps platform for software development. The Enterprise Edition is a web-based Git repository manager that allows teams to collaborate on code and automate workflows for building, testing, and deploying applications. We already offer the Gitlab datasource plugin, which allows you to query and visualize data from your GitLab instance on your Grafana dashboards.

6 easy ways to improve your log dashboards with Grafana and Grafana Loki

Because of where you’re reading this post, I’m going to assume you already know that Grafana is a great tool for visualizing and presenting metrics, and persisting them on dashboards. Ever since the Grafana Loki query builder for LogQL was introduced in 2022, it’s been easy to display and visualize logs, too.