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Security report for grafana.com

Grafana Labs · Technology · United States

Low risk. No critical or high findings.

Security score

86/100

Risk levelLow

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

Grafana Labs is a leading technology company specializing in open source analytics and monitoring solutions, primarily targeting developers, IT professionals, and enterprises seeking comprehensive observability platforms. The company offers a robust suite of products including Grafana Cloud and open source tools such as Grafana, Loki, and Tempo, enhanced with AI/ML capabilities for anomaly detection and root cause analysis. Recognized as a leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, Grafana Labs maintains a strong market position with a focus on cloud-based and enterprise solutions. Technically, the website is built using modern technologies including the Hugo static site generator, Alpine.js for interactivity, and Tailwind CSS for styling, hosted on Amazon AWS infrastructure. The site demonstrates excellent performance, mobile optimization, and accessibility, supported by comprehensive SEO practices. Privacy compliance is well addressed with a detailed privacy policy, cookie consent mechanisms via OneTrust, and GDPR adherence indicators. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS with strong SSL configuration and includes essential security headers. While no explicit security policy or incident response contacts are published, the domain registration data is consistent and trustworthy, with clientTransferProhibited status and no privacy protection masking registrant details. Minor improvements could include enabling DNSSEC and publishing a security.txt file to enhance vulnerability disclosure transparency. Overall, Grafana Labs presents a professional, secure, and privacy-conscious digital presence aligned with its enterprise-grade observability solutions. The website effectively supports its business model and target audience, with strong trust signals and technical maturity.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
88/ 100 · Low
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.

GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.

Priority findings

No critical or high findings. These medium findings are worth fixing next.

  1. Security headers

    Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.

    • Medium

      Missing X-XSS-Protection header

      Legacy XSS protection (deprecated but still recommended)

      What to do: Add "X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block"

    • Medium

      Missing Permissions-Policy header

      Controls browser features and APIs

      What to do: Implement a Permissions-Policy to restrict feature access

      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Permissions-Policy: accelerometer=(), autoplay=(), camera=(), cross-origin-isolated=(),…

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • Medium

      Privacy policy may not be GDPR compliant

      Privacy policy lacks explicit GDPR compliance elements

      What to do: Update privacy policy to explicitly address GDPR requirements and user rights

  3. Email security

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.

    • Medium

      No MTA-STS Policy

      MTA-STS enforces TLS for email delivery

      What to do: Implement MTA-STS to prevent downgrade attacks

  4. DNS health

    DNS sends visitors and email to the right servers. Misconfigured records can cause outages or let someone redirect your traffic.

    • Medium

      DNSSEC Not Enabled

      DNSSEC is not configured for this domain

      What to do: Enable DNSSEC to prevent DNS spoofing attacks

      • CAPEC-142
      • RFC 4033
      • RFC 4035

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  • Security score drift

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
100
Security headers
65
Email security
75
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
88
Average
86

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

Findings that cap the score at 49

Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

Partial scans

When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.

Risk levels

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

Grafana Labs operates in the technology sector, focusing on observability and monitoring solutions. Its business model combines open source software with cloud and enterprise offerings, targeting developers and IT teams. The company benefits from a strong brand presence, recognized industry leadership, and a comprehensive product ecosystem that includes AI-driven insights and incident response tools. Revenue streams likely include subscriptions to Grafana Cloud services and enterprise support. The company maintains active partnerships and a vibrant community, leveraging social media and extensive documentation to engage customers. Growth indicators include recent Gartner recognition and continuous product innovation. Strategic observations highlight the importance of maintaining security transparency and expanding compliance disclosures to reinforce market trust.

Security posture

Grafana Labs demonstrates a mature security posture with enforced HTTPS, robust SSL configuration, and multiple security headers protecting against common web vulnerabilities. The use of clientTransferProhibited domain status adds protection against unauthorized domain transfers. Privacy compliance is strong, with GDPR-aligned policies and cookie consent mechanisms. However, the absence of a publicly available security policy or incident response contact limits transparency for vulnerability reporting. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the website content. Recommendations include enabling DNSSEC to secure DNS queries and publishing a security.txt file to facilitate responsible vulnerability disclosure. Overall, the security posture supports business continuity and customer trust but could benefit from enhanced communication on security practices.

Recommendations

  1. Enable DNSSEC on the domain to improve DNS security and prevent spoofing.
  2. Publish a dedicated security policy page outlining security practices and compliance.
  3. Add a security.txt file at the root domain to provide clear vulnerability disclosure contacts.
  4. Include explicit incident response contact channels such as security@ or abuse@ email addresses.
  5. Continue monitoring and updating third-party scripts to avoid potential vulnerabilities.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Grafana Labs
Description
Grafana is the open source analytics and monitoring solution for every database.
Key services
Grafana Cloud, Open source observability tools (Grafana, Loki, Tempo), AI/ML insights, SLO management, Alerting, Incident response and on-call management
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
Hugo static site generator, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS, Font Awesome, OneTrust cookie consent, Hotjar (conditional), AWS DNS hosting
Frameworks
Alpine.js
Platforms
AWS
Performance
fast
Mobile
excellent
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
90/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Client transfer prohibited domain status
  • Cookie consent banner with OneTrust
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Services
Hotjar, Adobe Experience Platform
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Hotjar, Adobe Experience Platform (tt.omtrdc.net)
Marketing tools
OneTrust, Hotjar
Transparency
good

Site quality

Design
excellent
User experience
excellent
Content relevance
excellent
Navigation
excellent
Professionalism
excellent
Trustworthiness
high

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content and professional design.
  2. Strong branding and clear market positioning in observability and monitoring.
  3. Comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with consent mechanisms.
  4. No direct security policy or incident response contact found on the site.
  5. Use of modern web technologies and good SEO practices.
  6. No suspicious or malicious content detected.
  7. Social media presence is active and linked.
  8. Domain WHOIS data supports legitimacy and trustworthiness.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a modern, performant technical stack using Hugo for static site generation, Alpine.js for lightweight interactivity, and Tailwind CSS for responsive styling. Hosting on AWS provides scalability and reliability. The site loads quickly, is mobile-optimized, and includes accessibility features such as ARIA attributes and keyboard navigation support. SEO is well implemented with comprehensive meta tags, Open Graph data, and JSON-LD structured data describing the organization. Tracking and analytics tools like Hotjar and Adobe Experience Platform are used with user consent. No technical debt or deprecated technologies were identified. Opportunities exist to further enhance security by enabling DNSSEC and improving vulnerability disclosure mechanisms.
Standards and sources

Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

Earlier scans of this domain

  1. 68/100Medium25 findingsView report
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