Monitor behind a firewall w/ Private Data source Connect on Grafana Cloud (Grafana Office Hours #04)
How do you monitor behind a firewall? With Grafana Cloud Private Data Connect, you can create a secure tunnel to query data sources, even including those in VPCs on public cloud vendors. Senior Software Engineers Stephanie Hingtgen and Georges Chaudy talk to Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven about how it works.
Blog post on Private Data Connect: https://grafana.com/blog/2023/06/23/new-in-grafana-10-securely-monitor-and-query-network-secured-data-sources-from-grafana-cloud/
Docs on Private Data Connect: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/data-configuration/configure-private-datasource-connect/
Setup for open-source, non-Grafana Cloud version: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/proxy/
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00:00:00 Introductions to Stephanie and Georges
00:01:51 What is Private Datasource Connect and why do we need it?
00:06:10 How does PDC work?
00:10:28 Demo: How to install Private Data source Connect on Grafana Cloud
00:13:35 What's the difference between PDC and a VPN?
00:18:49 What's the socks5 protocol?
00:20:00 Installing Private Data source Agent in Kubernetes and as a binary
00:22:16 Is PDC secure? How do you restrict it to certain ports?
00:30:49 What types of data sources can be used with PDC?
00:32:04 Security and penetration testing done on PDC
00:33:28 Testing PDC for performance and scalability
00:38:21 Limitations on data sources that you can use PDC with
00:43:43 How can we use PDC now?
00:48:12 Challenges faced while developing PDC
00:53:44 Extra options for infrastructure when using PDC
00:57:00 Future plans for PDC
Contact Nicole:
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole
GitHub: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com
Contact Stephanie:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-hingtgen/
GitHub: https://github.com/stephaniehingtgen
Contact Georges:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeorgesChaudy
GitHub: https://github.com/chaudyg
Learn more about Grafana Labs:
Website: https://grafana.com
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana