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

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...

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Grafana Mimir Q&A with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt

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.

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Grafana 8.3.2 and 7.5.12 released with moderate severity security fix

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...

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An update on 0day CVE-2021-43798: Grafana directory traversal

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 8 Dec 2021 · 5 min read

An update on 0day CVE-2021-43798: Grafana directory traversal

More insight into the timeline behind the recent release of Grafana 8.3.1, 8.2.7, 8.1.8, and 8.0.7 which all include a high severity security fix.

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A look inside how the Prometheus Conformance Program works and why it's important

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 21 Oct 2021 · 5 min read

A look inside how the Prometheus Conformance Program works and why it's important

The Prometheus Conformance Program helps determine what software and services are compatible with Prometheus

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Grafana 7.5.11 and 8.1.6 released with critical security fix

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 5 Oct 2021 · 4 min read

Grafana 7.5.11 and 8.1.6 released with critical security fix

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IoT at your home, work, or data center with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

IoT at your home, work, or data center with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud

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Q&A with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt about our licensing changes

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 20 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

Q&A with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt about our licensing changes

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Intro to exemplars, which enable Grafana Tempo’s distributed tracing at massive scale

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 31 Mar 2021 · 6 min read

Intro to exemplars, which enable Grafana Tempo’s distributed tracing at massive scale

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The basics of IoT, and why Prometheus works so well with it

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 10 Mar 2021 · 5 min read

The basics of IoT, and why Prometheus works so well with it

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