Spike: Determine and implement authentication between Grafana and GitLab

Purpose

We want to enable users to embed Grafana metrics in GitLab issues. Through https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/13039, we determined that users could do a basic implementation by linking the grafana image. This shows the latest chart but is not interactive. It is also unclear how it would perform if a user does not have permissions to view the grafana image.

Considering a lot of users use Grafana, we need to provide a better embed integration so that the user can interact with the chart and have a clear path on how to handle user permissions on Grafana and on gitlab

Outcome

Determine how and implement authentication between Grafana and GitLab

Intended users

Sasha the Software Developer
Devon the DevOps Engineer
Sidney the Systems Administrator

Further details

This work contributes to the Incident Management Vision

Proposal

Populate this section with the findings that comes from this spike