Case Study: U.S. Air Force accelerates secure software delivery with Grafana

The U.S. Department of Defense Formally Authorizes Grafana, Grafana Enterprise, and Loki for Its 100,000 Developers

The U.S. Air Force and broader U.S. Department of Defense needed to modernize software delivery after years of slow, waterfall-based development cycles that could take three to ten years. Facing pressure to move faster on AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity, the DoD sought secure, scalable observability and dashboarding tools like Grafana, Grafana Enterprise, and Loki that could support its DevSecOps initiative.

Grafana Labs delivered the solution by getting Grafana, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Loki, and Prometheus formally authorized through Iron Bank, the DoD’s vetted repository of hardened container images. This gave 100,000 DoD developers and contractors immediate approval to deploy these tools without extra security reviews, improving access to observability capabilities and helping teams build and operate software more reliably and at the speed of relevance.

U.S. Air Force

Nicolas M. Chaillan

Chief Software Officer