Grafana and LDAP: Increase Security in Less Than 5 minutes

This article will cover how to quickly integrate Grafana and LDAP server to increase the security of your application

Grafana is one of the most used dashboard tools, mainly for the observability platforms on cloud-workload environments. But none of these tools is complete until you can configure them to meet your security standards. Security is becoming each time more and more important and this is especially true when we are talking about any cloud-related component. So this topic should always something that any cloud architect has in mind when they are defining or implementing any piece of software today.

And at that point, the LDAP integration is one of the main things you will always need to do. I don’t know any enterprise, big or small, that allows the usage of any tool with a Graphical User Interface if it is not connected to the corporate directory.

So, let’s see how we can implement this with a popular tool such as Grafana. In my case, I’m going to use a containerized version of grafana, but the steps and things to do remains the same no matter the deployment model.

The task that we are going to perform is based on three steps:

• Enable the LDAP settings