Business metrics in Grafana Cloud: Get an AI assist to help securely analyze your data

Grafana Cloud's Private Data Source Connect (PDC) offers a secure solution for modern businesses to integrate proprietary datasets from private networks into their observability platforms without compromising security. By deploying a lightweight PDC agent that creates an encrypted SSH tunnel, businesses can securely access and visualize relational data such as business metrics directly in their Grafana dashboards. Grafana Assistant, an AI-powered tool, enhances this capability by translating natural language prompts into complex SQL queries, enabling users to transform PostgreSQL data into meaningful visualizations without needing SQL expertise. This integration not only simplifies the process of querying and visualizing data but also expands the use of observability tools beyond engineering, allowing businesses to track metrics related to security, compliance, and customer behavior. The setup process is automated through a Terraform blueprint, which facilitates secure infrastructure provisioning and includes a demo using the World Happiness Report dataset to showcase the potential of combining PDC with PostgreSQL and Grafana Assistant for advanced business analytics.