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  • Dec 2025

    • deprecated

      Default Grafana admin deprecation

      We would like to inform you that the Observability default Grafana admin user, created during instance provisioning, is now deprecated and will be removed on January 11, 2027, if the credentials have not been changed. From this date on, also the creation of a default admin user for new instances will no longer be supported.

      For security reasons, we recommend removing this default user right now and using STACKIT SSO (or your own SSO provider) instead. More information about Grafana SSO can be found in the Configure Grafana Access documentation. To remove this default user, we have introduced a new attribute in the Observability API instance update endpoint and a new button in the Portal (coming soon).

      Additionally, you can already decide whether the default admin user should be created during provisioning. We have added a corresponding attribute in the Observability API instance creation endpoint as well as a new dialog in the Portal provisioning flow (coming soon).

      Please be aware that once the default admin user is removed or the creation of it is skipped, it cannot be recreated via the API or the Portal. However, it will still be possible to manually create basic auth users in the Grafana UI.

      Another benefit of removing the default admin is that it frees up a user slot. This allows you to utilize the full user limit defined in your plan (e.g. all 5 slots of the smallest plan) for real users via SSO.

    • announcement

      Grafana Administrative Access via SSO

      We would like to inform you that it is now possible to gain full administrative access to Grafana through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) via Single Sign-On (SSO). Previously, this was only possible via a basic auth admin user created during instance provisioning.

      To use this new administrative access, you have two options:

      • STACKIT SSO (enabled by default): We introduced a new permission: argus.grafana.server-administrate. This permission is included in the Observability Grafana Server Admin and Owner roles.

      • Custom SSO: If you wish to configure Grafana Server admin privileges through your own SSO provider, we have introduced a new attribute, allowAssignGrafanaAdmin, to the Observability API grafana-config endpoint to handle this configuration. For detailed information on the API itself, see the Observability API documentation .

      More information about the default Grafana admin, Grafana SSO and other access methods can be found in the Configure Grafana Access documentation.

  • Aug 2025

    • announcement

      Alertmanager now supports Google Chat webhooks

      We are happy to announce that our Observability Alertmanager now supports sending notifications to Google Chat spaces via webhooks.

      The integration can be configured through the Observability API. For an example on how to set it up, refer to the Observability documentation. For detailed information on the API itself, see the Observability API documentation .

  • May 2025

    • announcement

      Optimizing Loki Querying Performance

      We would like to inform you about a change we made to instances with the following plans:

      • Observability Basic
      • Observability Medium
      • Observability Large

      This release introduces enhancements to the mentioned Observability plans, with a specific focus on improving query performance and capabilities of caching related to the Loki component.

      Newly created instances will already have those changes and existing instances are adjusted with those improvements.