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We chatted with Alex Haro the Co-Founder and CTO of Life360 about how they are addressing logging at scale. He shares his thoughts on why LogDNA was a fit for them and how he sees logging fitting into his future for the company.

We chatted with Nick Elser who leads the Infrastructure Engineer group at Instacart about their recent transition to LogDNA. He walks through the challenges his team is working on and why the switch to LogDNA helped solve their logging needs.

Logs can be one of the most effective tools for engineers and DevOps. In this webinar LogDNA CTO Lee Liu will demonstrate best practices with container logging, how to make sense of them and setup effective alerts to raise problems before they spin out of control.

How Grafana can be used to visualize future data, although default usage is focussed on historical data.

Erik Nordstrom provides an update of TimescaleDB.

The new InfluxDB query language is functional in nature. Conceptually it looks like D3 or jQuery. Functions are chained off each other. This gives greater flexibility for what the language can do and opens up new possibilities for UI builders. This talk will cover the details of the language and user interface ideas that can pair up nicely with it. We'll look at query examples that perform math on metrics, interpolation, and similarity measures.

Building a company around an open source project is not for the faint of heart. Find out what we've been up to since our last GrafanaCon, How the team has grown, our view on the open source software landscape, and what's to come for Grafana Labs.

Paul Dix talks about some of the new updates in InfluxDB.

The launch of Grafana v5 is probably the single biggest enhancement of the project's history. New features include a totally revamped layout engine, dashboard folders, and some foundational UX/UI improvements.