# Grafana cloud, allow\_embedding and mysql connection

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-cloud-allow-embedding-and-mysql-connection/32535>\
**Category:** MySQL\
**Tags:** mysql\
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-cloud-allow-embedding-and-mysql-connection/32535 "2020-06-23T01:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![hilbertvanpelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ad7895/32.png) [@hilbertvanpelt](https://community.grafana.com/u/hilbertvanpelt)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-cloud-allow-embedding-and-mysql-connection/32535/1 "2020-06-23T01:35:00Z")

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Hi All,

I have just been doing some testing of Grafana for the dashboard need of our company and it looks quite promising. I just had a couple of questions that were a bit unclear that I was hoping somebody would be able to help me with.

In our company we have a local mysql instance which hosts all the data. We want to serve this data on dashboards internally and externally. For the internal dashboards I can just use our local grafana instance, but for the external sharing I am thinking about using the Grafana cloud.

To be able to get any dashboard to work in the cloud I will need to make sure the cloud instance has the ability to see my local mysql server. I don’t really want to make my server directly visible to the network since would cause a lot of security issues. Does anybody have any guidance on other options?

Also I will need to make sure I can embed my Grafana dashboards in other web pages. The documantation is very clear on how to allow embedding in the local version, but I have not been able to find anything on how to do this in the cloud version. Does anybody know how to allow embedding in the cloud version?

Kind Regards,  
Hilbert

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**Author:** ![emanasad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@emanasad](https://community.grafana.com/u/emanasad)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-cloud-allow-embedding-and-mysql-connection/32535/2 "2021-10-07T04:48:11Z")

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kindly let me know if you got any updates on your issue? as its similar to our case here. Thank you