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Grafana security basics

Grafana security basics

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Grafana security basics

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- [Instructor] Once Grafana is installed we will want to implement a few security measures to our setup right away. This includes changing the administrative login password and ensuring that new account registration and anonymous access are turned off. Every Grafana installation uses the same administrative login credentials, by default, so our first step to ensuring a secure system is to update these credentials. We can practice doing this by running a Grafana docker container. To run the container, we'll type, docker run -d -p 3000:3000 and then grafana/grafana to start up Grafana's official docker container. And let's get the docker command spelled correctly. And hit enter. This will pull down the latest Grafana Docker image and start running it. Once the container is running, we can start by opening a new browser tab and navigating to localhost on port 3000. This will bring up the default login screen containing a form with user and password fields. Enter admin into both of these…

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