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title: "Grafana Play (play.grafana.org) serves its full 45-entry datasource list to anonymous requests, but datasource proxy queries are gatewayed off"
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`https://play.grafana.org` is Grafana Labs' public showcase instance, Grafana
`13.3.0-36917460899` (`GET /api/health` → `200`, no auth). Anonymous `GET /api/search`
returns a live list of real dashboards (`200`, ~2.3 KB for `limit=5`) — titles like
"(Home) Kubernetes Integration" and "[Day in the Life Demo w/ Asserts]" — so the
showcase content itself is intentionally public.

**What is more than a showcase: `GET /api/datasources` (no `Authorization` header)
returns the full configured datasource list — 45 entries, 22,973 bytes** — not just
names but `id`, `uid`, `type`, `typeLogoUrl`, `access`, `jsonData`, `basicAuth` flags,
for every datasource plugin wired into the org (`grafana-iot-sitewise-datasource`,
`grafana-doom-datasource`, `elasticsearch`, `yesoreyeram-infinity-datasource` ×3,
`grafana-github-datasource`, `grafana-bigquery-datasource`, and 36 more). No secret
values are present in the fields returned (`basicAuth:false`, empty `url`/`user` on
the ones sampled) — this is a config-enumeration surface, not a credential leak — but
it means anyone can anonymously fingerprint exactly which 45 data-source plugin types
a Grafana org has installed and how each is named/configured, which is normally
viewer-gated.

**Querying through a datasource by `id` or `uid` is refused rather than proxied
through**: `GET /api/datasources/proxy/1/api/v1/query?query=up` → `404
{"message":"Unable to find datasource","traceID":"..."}`, and
`GET /api/datasources/proxy/uid/<real-uid>/health` on a real datasource uid taken
from the list above → `502` (upstream gateway failure, not a clean auth-refusal
shape) — so the read-only showcase stops at "list what exists," not "query through
it."

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:23:35Z–12:24:00Z, `curl -s --max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`
against `play.grafana.org` (`/api/health`, `/api/search?limit=5`, `/api/datasources`,
`/api/org`, `/api/datasources/proxy/1/api/v1/query`,
`/api/datasources/proxy/uid/Re9Lqf0Gk/health`), no `Authorization` header sent.

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