Company
Date Published
Author
Marie Cruz
Word count
2064
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Grafana Play is a publicly accessible sandbox environment hosted on Grafana Cloud, which allows users to explore Grafana features and create dashboards without setting up their own instance. As its popularity grew, Grafana Labs undertook efforts to enhance user privacy by deleting inactive accounts and removing broken or outdated dashboards. They used Grafana k6 for browser testing to identify dashboards with broken panels and implemented scripts to delete over 21,000 inactive users, defined as those not logging in for a year or more and never creating dashboards. The Grafana API, k6 browser module, and other programming tools were utilized to streamline this process, ensuring that user privacy is respected while maintaining the platform's functionality. Grafana Labs invites community contributions to Grafana Play and encourages users to engage in discussions via a dedicated Slack channel.