In recent months, we have been working on improving the performance of Grafana Mimir, the open source, horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant TSDB for long-term storage of your metrics.

Since Grafana started 10 years ago, there have been more than 43,000 commits to the open source project. Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard has made more than 7,600 of those commits, and he recently reflected on some personal favorites he’s worked on, ranging from early query builders to the latest navigation updates. Torkel isn’t the only one who has strong feelings.

Whether you're a small startup or a large enterprise, the health and performance of your network infrastructure are critical to your success. This is where network monitoring comes into play. Network monitoring involves the continuous observation and analysis of network traffic, devices, and performance metrics to ensure smooth operations, detect anomalies, and troubleshoot issues promptly.

In this guide, we will compare two of the leading data visualization tools based upon open-source software that are available for use for metrics, traces and log analysis. To allow new users to know exactly which solution may be best suited to their needs, we wanted to explore in more depth a comparison between OpenSearch Dashboards and Kibana across various aspects in our latest guide covering the differences between leading open-source software.

Anna Kapuścińska is a Software Engineer at Isovalent, who has a rich experience wearing both developer and SRE hats across the industry. Now she works on Isovalent observability products such as Hubble, Tetragon, and Timescape, as well as the respective Grafana integrations for all of them.

Greetings, Kubernetes Time Lords! Through a series of recent updates to our multi-purpose Kubernetes Monitoring solution in Grafana Cloud, we’ve made it easier than ever to assess your resource utilization, whether you’re looking at yesterday, today, or tomorrow. All companies that use Kubernetes, regardless of size, should monitor their available resource utilization. If a fleet is under-provisioned, the performance and availability of applications and services are at serious risk.

Graphite is free and open-source software. It is used as a time-series database monitoring tool, where you can collect, store and display time-series data in real-time. As you can monitor certain metrics of this data using Graphite, it has a very useful and simple dashboard used to visualize these metrics. This article will show you how to display a metric on your Graphite dashboard. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems.