diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Button/Button.tsx b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Button/Button.tsx
index 2733df16c01..55b05c98ffe 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Button/Button.tsx
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Button/Button.tsx
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export const Button = React.forwardRef<HTMLButtonElement, ButtonProps>(
 
 Button.displayName = 'Button';
 
-type ButtonLinkProps = CommonProps & AnchorHTMLAttributes<HTMLAnchorElement>;
+type ButtonLinkProps = CommonProps & ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement> & AnchorHTMLAttributes<HTMLAnchorElement>;
 export const LinkButton = React.forwardRef<HTMLAnchorElement, ButtonLinkProps>(
   ({ variant, icon, children, className, ...otherProps }, ref) => {
     const theme = useContext(ThemeContext);
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/InfoBox/InfoBox.story.tsx b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/InfoBox/InfoBox.story.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99df293771e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/InfoBox/InfoBox.story.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { number } from '@storybook/addon-knobs';
+import { InfoBox } from './InfoBox';
+
+export default {
+  title: 'General/InfoBox',
+  component: InfoBox,
+  decorators: [],
+  parameters: {
+    docs: {},
+  },
+};
+
+const getKnobs = () => {
+  const CONTAINER_GROUP = 'Container options';
+  // ---
+  const containerWidth = number(
+    'Container width',
+    800,
+    {
+      range: true,
+      min: 100,
+      max: 1500,
+      step: 100,
+    },
+    CONTAINER_GROUP
+  );
+
+  return { containerWidth };
+};
+
+export const basic = () => {
+  const { containerWidth } = getKnobs();
+
+  return (
+    <div style={{ width: containerWidth }}>
+      <InfoBox
+        header="User Permission"
+        footer={
+          <>
+            Checkout the{' '}
+            <a className="external-link" target="_blank" href="http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/mysql/">
+              MySQL Data Source Docs
+            </a>{' '}
+            for more information.,
+          </>
+        }
+      >
+        <p>
+          The database user should only be granted SELECT permissions on the specified database &amp; tables you want to
+          query. Grafana does not validate that queries are safe so queries can contain any SQL statement. For example,
+          statements like <code>USE otherdb;</code> and <code>DROP TABLE user;</code> would be executed. To protect
+          against this we <strong>Highly</strong> recommmend you create a specific MySQL user with restricted
+          permissions.
+        </p>
+      </InfoBox>
+    </div>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/InfoBox/InfoBox.tsx b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/InfoBox/InfoBox.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1a8ebae2499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/InfoBox/InfoBox.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { css, cx } from 'emotion';
+import { GrafanaTheme } from '@grafana/data';
+import { stylesFactory, useTheme } from '../../themes';
+
+export interface Props extends React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement> {
+  header?: string | JSX.Element;
+  footer?: string | JSX.Element;
+}
+
+/**
+ * This is a simple InfoBox component, the api is not considered stable yet and will likely see breaking changes
+ * in future minor releases.
+ * @Alpha
+ */
+export const InfoBox = React.memo(
+  React.forwardRef<HTMLDivElement, Props>(({ header, footer, className, children, ...otherProps }, ref) => {
+    const theme = useTheme();
+    const css = getInfoBoxStyles(theme);
+
+    return (
+      <div className={cx([css.wrapper, className])} {...otherProps} ref={ref}>
+        {header && (
+          <div className={css.header}>
+            <h5>{header}</h5>
+          </div>
+        )}
+        {children}
+        {footer && <div className={css.footer}>{footer}</div>}
+      </div>
+    );
+  })
+);
+
+const getInfoBoxStyles = stylesFactory((theme: GrafanaTheme) => ({
+  wrapper: css`
+    position: relative;
+    padding: ${theme.spacing.lg};
+    background-color: ${theme.colors.bg2};
+    border-top: 3px solid ${theme.palette.blue80};
+    margin-bottom: ${theme.spacing.md};
+    margin-right: ${theme.spacing.xs};
+    box-shadow: ${theme.shadows.listItem};
+    flex-grow: 1;
+
+    ul {
+      padding-left: ${theme.spacing.lg};
+    }
+
+    code {
+      @include font-family-monospace();
+      font-size: ${theme.typography.size.sm};
+      background-color: ${theme.colors.bg1};
+      color: ${theme.colors.text};
+      border: 1px solid ${theme.colors.border2};
+      border-radius: 4px;
+    }
+
+    p:last-child {
+      margin-bottom: 0;
+    }
+
+    a {
+      @extend .external-link;
+    }
+
+    &--max-lg {
+      max-width: ${theme.breakpoints.lg};
+    }
+  `,
+  header: css`
+    margin-bottom: ${theme.spacing.d};
+  `,
+  footer: css`
+    margin-top: ${theme.spacing.d};
+  `,
+}));
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Logs/LogDetailsRow.tsx b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Logs/LogDetailsRow.tsx
index 7858d76f5dc..babaf781eed 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Logs/LogDetailsRow.tsx
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Logs/LogDetailsRow.tsx
@@ -126,14 +126,13 @@ class UnThemedLogDetailsRow extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
                       href={link.href}
                       target={'_blank'}
                       onClick={
-                        link.onClick
-                          ? event => {
-                              if (!(event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey || event.shiftKey) && link.onClick) {
-                                event.preventDefault();
-                                link.onClick(event);
-                              }
-                            }
-                          : undefined
+                        link.onClick &&
+                        ((event: any) => {
+                          if (!(event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey || event.shiftKey) && link.onClick) {
+                            event.preventDefault();
+                            link.onClick(event);
+                          }
+                        })
                       }
                     />
                   </>
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/index.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/index.ts
index 1ad26994f08..b0f46255720 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/index.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ export { DataLinksInlineEditor } from './DataLinks/DataLinksInlineEditor/DataLin
 export { DataLinkInput } from './DataLinks/DataLinkInput';
 export { DataLinksContextMenu } from './DataLinks/DataLinksContextMenu';
 export { SeriesIcon } from './Legend/SeriesIcon';
+export { InfoBox } from './InfoBox/InfoBox';
 
 export { JSONFormatter } from './JSONFormatter/JSONFormatter';
 export { JsonExplorer } from './JSONFormatter/json_explorer/json_explorer';