Author

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann

Director, Community

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF Technical Advisory Group Observability chair, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads or organizes various conferences, including PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, freenode work, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.

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Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 27 Jun 2024 · 6 min read

Grafana security update: Grafana Loki and unintended data write attempts to Amazon S3 buckets

We discovered the Grafana Loki Helm chart had a default configuration that could potentially lead to unintended requests to third-party Amazon S3...

Security

AWS

Loki

Simon Crute · 6 May 2024 · 6 min read

Data source security in Grafana: Best practices and what to avoid

A security report claiming there’s a SQL injection attack in Grafana is incorrect. It is the intended and documented behavior for authenticated users...

Security

Grafana

Dashboard

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 30 Mar 2022 · 9 min read

Grafana Mimir Q&A with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt

With the launch of our new open source TSDB, we collected questions from Grafanistas and Raj answered them.

Open source

Grafana Mimir

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 10 Dec 2021 · 4 min read

Grafana 8.3.2 and 7.5.12 released with moderate severity security fix

The release of Grafana 8.3.2 and 7.5.12 include a moderate severity security fix. If you are affected, we recommend that you install newly released...