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by londons_explore 39 days ago
Is there anything of value in the internal codebase?

So many companies internal codebases are of approximately zero value to any outsider. The code is only a small proportion of the business.

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They killed OSS incident management

Given a lot of their software is OSS or OSS based there's a probable chance non-OSS is runnable and usable outside the company

The product is mostly "standalone" in that it doesn't require integrations with 3rd parties unlike, say, banking software

Maybe some EE stuff like SSO and etc? Unfortunately layering that stuff on is super low effort in these LLM days.
Grafana OSS does support SSO out of the box, at least OIDC (which is a technically superior standard to SAML w.r.t. security).

The Enterprise edition seems to focus a lot on meta-information about grafana itself: the most frequently accessed dashboard, who is viewing the current dashboard etc.

Theres also group-sync, I guess, which is useful, but honestly the selling point of enterprise is the support I think.

In fact, I might buy enterprise following this, the fact that so much is in the base product gives me the warm fuzzies.

AI is actually pretty good at finding vulnerabilities in the codebase.

Critical vulnerability in that source code could enable further access to other production systems or databases.

Edit: typo