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@northernmonkey98 northernmonkey98 commented Jul 7, 2025

✍️ Add Blog: Setting Up and Securing a Database User for Grafana

Summary

This PR adds a new documentation article titled "Setting Up and Securing a Database User for Grafana". The guide walks through:

  • Creating read-only users in MySQL using SQL
  • Connecting Grafana securely to databases
  • Best practices for database security
  • Using environment variables to manage credentials

📌 Motivation

To help users configure secure database access for Grafana in a beginner-friendly and production-safe way

✅ Changes

  • New Markdown file: secure-grafana-database-user.md
  • Includes:
    • SQL examples for MySQL
    • Grafana connection steps
    • Security best practices

🧪 Testing

  • Verified all code blocks and syntax

🔜 To Do

  • Add photo and video on how to do this within the hedisql gui

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this is my first time ever in 14 years doing a pull request please let me know what i can do better and any mistakes i made

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