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Grafana Tempo Introduces New Query Language and Support for Apache Parquet
Grafana has released Grafana Tempo 2.0 which introduces the new TraceQL query language and support for the Apache Parquet format. Grafana Tempo is an open-source tracing backend that works with object storage. The new TraceQL query language works with the Apache Parquet format to provide improved search times and queries aligned to traces.
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Grafana Adds Outlier Detection to Its Machine Learning Toolkit
Grafana has released outlier detection as part of their Grafana Machine Learning toolkit. Outlier detection can be used to monitor a group of similar things and be alerted when some of them start to behave differently than the norm.
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Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database
Grafana has announced two new additions to its suite of observability and monitoring tooling. Grafana Faro is an open-source web SDK for real user monitoring (RUM) of browser frontend applications. Grafana Phlare is an open-source backend database for storing and querying profiling data. A new flame graph panel is available to facilitate visualizing and interpreting the collected profile data.
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Grafana Labs Announces Trace Query Language TraceQL
Part of the upcoming Grafana Tempo 2.0, TraceQL is a query language aiming to make it simple to interactively search and extract traces. This will speed up the process of diagnosing and responding to root causes, says Grafana.
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How We Can Use Data to Improve System Quality
To understand how systems are being used, we can collect metrics and identify trends over time. The data and insights gained can be used to improve system quality by improving software design or testing patterns.
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Azure Managed Grafana Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Grafana, a managed service that enables customers to run Grafana natively within the Azure cloud platform. With the managed service, they can connect to existing Azure Services to enhance observability and cloud management.
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Effectively Monitoring Your Monitoring - Miedwar Meshbesher on Using Vigilance Controls
With many open-source and paid tools available to do the job, it can be relatively straightforward to make sure that your systems are monitored properly. But, how does a team make sure that these systems are working as described, and alert the team effectively that there’s a problem with the system that is supposed to be keeping an eye on things?
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Full-Stack Observability with Grafana and Azure Monitor
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Managed Grafana in preview, including new Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor. With Azure Managed Grafana, customers can now view their Azure monitoring data in Grafana dashboards and have new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards.
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Building an SLO-Driven Culture at Salesforce
Salesforce built a platform to monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The platform provided service owners with deep and actionable insights into how to improve or maintain the health of their services, to find dips in SLIs, to find dependent services that weren’t meeting their own SLOs, and overall provide a better understanding of customers’ experience with their services.
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Grafana Cloud Adds Incident and On-Call Management Solutions
Grafana has announced the addition of incident management and on-call support to their Grafana Cloud offering. Grafana Incident, currently in preview, generates meeting spaces, integrates with Slack, and constructs incident timelines with information pulled from Grafana dashboards. Grafana OnCall provides on-call rotation scheduling and notification from connected monitoring systems.
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Grafana Labs Changes Licenses to AGPLv3 for Grafana, Loki, and Tempo
Grafana Labs has recently announced the plan to change the licenses for their core products. They will relicense Grafana, Grafana Loki, and Grafana Tempo from the Apache License 2.0 to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3. Plugins, agents, and certain libraries will remain Apache-licensed.
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Charts.CSS, a Pure CSS Charting Library
Charts.css is a new data visualization library that relies solely on CSS and HTML. By avoiding the use of JavaScript/Canvas, it avoids many of the accessibility challenges in existing solutions while keeping the bundle size under 10KB when minified and gzipped.
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Grafana Adds Enterprise Logs to Its Managed Observability Stack
Grafana Labs recently released a new log aggregation module for Grafana Enterprise Stack, its commercial observability platform.. Grafana Enterprise Logs ingests and stores logs from applications and other components. When using the module with other components of the Grafana Enterprise Stack, users can configure dashboards to display log data alongside metrics.
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Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Its Grafana Cloud with a Free Tier, New Pricing and Features
Grafana Cloud is a fully-managed observability platform from Grafana Labs for applications and infrastructure. The company recently announced a new version for Grafana Cloud, including a free tier version, a different pricing structure, and several significant new features such as enhanced alerting and synthetic monitoring.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Service for Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
In one of the latest announcements of re:Invent 2020, AWS introduced the preview of Amazon Managed Service for Grafana, a managed Grafana that automatically scales compute and database infrastructure, with automated version updates and security patching. AWS also introduced a preview for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.