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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.
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Airbnb Releases Visx, a Set of Low-Level Primitives for Interactive Visualizations with React
Airbnb Engineering recently released the first major iteration of visx, a set of low-level React components that can be composed into interactive visualizations. Visx builds on D3 primitives, React component model, and React DOM handling. Visx strives to provide a data visualization front-end solution that is easy to learn without sacrificing expressiveness.
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Grafana Announces Grafana Tempo, a Distributed Tracing System
Grafana Labs recently released the distributed tracing backend Grafana Tempo. It only requires object storage like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to operate. Grafana Tempo integrates with any existing logging system to create links from trace IDs in log lines.
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Animated, Responsive, and Reactive Data Visualization with Svelte
Tom Fevrier and Matthias Stahl recently gave the Svelte community an overview of the techniques that can be used to achieve responsive, interactive, and animated data visualization with Svelte.
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Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other service mesh implementations like Istio, Linkerd, or Consul. Additionally, the OSM team is in the process of donating the project to the CNCF.
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Oliver Gould on Linkerd Service Mesh and Traffic Management
Oliver Gould, Linkerd product lead and CTO of Buyont, spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Linkerd service mesh, with a focus on traffic management capabilities.
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Microsoft Announces New Azure Analytics Services ADLS, ADX and More
Microsoft has announced the general availability of two new Azure analytics services - Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) and Azure Data Explorer (ADX). Furthermore, Microsoft also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.
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Grafana Adds Log Data Correlation to Time Series Metrics
The Grafana team announced an alpha version of Loki, their logging platform that ties in with other Grafana features like metrics query and visualization. Loki adds a new client agent promtail and serverside components for log metadata indexing and storage.
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Inside Stack Overflow’s Monitoring Systems
Nick Craver, architecture lead at Stack Exchange, wrote about their monitoring systems in a recent article. He discussed the philosophy and motivation behind their monitoring strategy and talked about their toolset - mainly Bosun, Grafana and Opserver.
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TensorSpace.js Delivers Neural Network 3D Visualization Framework
TensorSpace.js provides an open source browser-based neural network data visualization framework to complement the growing machine learning landscape by supporting pre-trained models created with TensorFlow.js, Keras, or TensorFlow.
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React Conf 2018 Introduces React Hooks and React 16.7 Alpha
The recent React Conf 2018 includes the alpha release of React 16.7, a Hooks proposal for using state and other React features without writing classes, and several promising third-party React packages.