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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Authenticating with Google

Moving on from GitHub, let's take a look at Google OAuth 2. Google has a much more elaborate system, but if your Grafana users are part of your G Suite account, this is a good way to provide them with access. After some initial steps involving the configuration of an authentication consent page, getting a client ID and client secret is simple:

  1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials:

  1. Create a project if you don't already have one. For our example, we'll call it grafana. Once you've created the project, you'll be returned to the Credentials page:

  1. Select + Create Credentials | OAuth client ID:

  1. You'll be required to fill out an OAuth consent page. However, since this is an internal application, you only need...
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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