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November 2024

An easier way to manage your observability collectors | Grafana

Managing observability collectors at scale is often overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Grafana Fleet Management offers a better way to monitor, configure, and control your collectors—all from a centralized platform. With remote configuration and detailed health insights, you can quickly resolve issues, save time, and reduce manual effort.

Easily control observability collectors at scale with Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud

Managing observability workloads can quickly overwhelm even the most experienced admin. Maybe you’re dealing with multiple departments, each needing its own collector configurations and pipelines. Every time you have to run a test or roll out a change, the process is cumbersome and introduces risk. Or perhaps you’re responsible for tracking hundreds of collectors across different environments and regions. In a scenario like this, troubleshooting individual issues feels nearly impossible.

CloudWatch metrics exporter YACE is now a prometheus-community project

We’re thrilled to share that the open source Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter (YACE) is now a prometheus-community project! This move represents an exciting milestone in YACE’s journey and validates the project’s contribution to the Prometheus ecosystem. Yace was started in 2018 by Thomas Peitz, who has overseen the dramatic evolution of the CloudWatch metrics exporter ever since.

No Code Observability with Grafana Beyla and eBPF | Explainer | Grafana

Discover how Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF, brings no-code observability to your applications, revolutionizing how you manage applications. No more adding agents, redeployment, or tedious code changes! In this video, we break down how Grafana Beyla leverages eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) to provide instant, reliable telemetry without touching your app’s code.

Scaling Observability for Dexory's Global Fleet of Autonomous Robots with Grafana Cloud:

Join Dexory's VP of Software, Matt MacLeod, as he explains how Dexory, a Grafana Labs customer, uses Grafana Cloud to monitor and manage a global fleet of autonomous robots for warehouse inventory. Hear about Dexory's journey from prototype to scalable observability solution, the challenges of high-frequency data collection in harsh environments, and how advanced monitoring enables proactive issue resolution. Discover Dexory’s insights on improving customer satisfaction and lowering operational costs through effective observability practices.

Grafana Beyla: what's new and what's next for the open source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool

It’s been a year since Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Grafana Beyla, our open source OpenTelemetry and Prometheus eBPF auto-instrumentation tool to help you easily get started with application observability. As a Beyla maintainer, I wanted to take a minute to reflect on what we’ve accomplished with Grafana Beyla since then, what we have learned about supporting an eBPF tool in production, and, in general, how exciting this whole journey has been.

Grafana Cloud updates: redesigned dashboard filters, more ways to use RBAC, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly roundup of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

Visualize real-time CAN-to-USB data via custom Grafana dashboards and the MQTT plugin

Martin Falch, co-owner and head of sales and marketing at CSS Electronics, is an expert on CAN bus data. Martin works closely with end users, typically OEM engineers, across diverse industries (automotive, heavy-duty, maritime, industrial). He is passionate about data visualization and has been spearheading the integration of the CANedge/CANmod with Grafana dashboards through various data sources.

Grafana release cycle: end-of-year update

It’s been another big year for Grafana. In April, we unveiled Grafana 11.0 at GrafanaCon 2024, which introduced a queryless experience with Explore Metrics and custom visualizations with Canvas panels. Since then, we’ve made improvements to data sources and visualizations in our minor releases, and just last month the 11.3 release marked the general availability of Scenes-powered dashboards.

How to work with multiple data sources in Grafana dashboards: best practices to get started

Grafana dashboards enable you to visualize and correlate data from a wide range of sources. With a centralized view of your data, you can troubleshoot faster, make better decisions, and streamline monitoring. But for those of you ramping up with Grafana, you might have a few questions about how, exactly, to create these rich dashboards featuring data from disparate sources, or even how to incorporate multiple queries from a single source into your visualization.

Deploying the Loki Helm on AWS | Grafana

One of our most requested Loki tutorials is here! Deploying the Loki Helm on AWS . In this video, we’ll walk you through the entire process of deploying the Loki Helm on AWS; from creating a Kubernetes cluster to configuring essential AWS resources to learning best practices when creating your Helm values file. If you are struggling with your first production deployment this should get you up and running so you can store your logs.

Prometheus 3.0 and OpenTelemetry: a practical guide to storing and querying OTel data

Over the past year, a lot of work has gone into making Prometheus work better with OpenTelemetry—a move that reflects the growing number of engineers and developers that rely on both open source projects. Historically, Prometheus users have faced a number of challenges when trying to work with OpenTelemetry (and vice versa).

AI Observability with Grafana with Ishan Jain (Grafana Office Hours #29)

In this Grafana Office Hours, Ishan Jain talks about AI Observability with Grafana: what it entails, factors to consider when monitoring and observing LLMs, and how to do it all with Grafana. He is joined by Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven. LINKS.

Creating alerts from panels in Kubernetes Monitoring: an overlooked, powerhouse feature

As a product manager here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned that sometimes the most powerful features can sneak by unnoticed, buried in those three little dots off to the side of the panel. But what happens when one of those hidden gems suddenly becomes the star of the show? Recently, we released a new Kubernetes Monitoring feature in Grafana Cloud—an alert system you can use to create alerts from panels in the app.

Booking.com's Observability Overhaul: Unified Metrics, Logs, and User Insights | Grafana & OTel

Murugesan and Ahmadali from Booking.com's Observability Team as they dive into the journey of modernizing observability. Discover how they transformed fragmented systems into a centralized, scalable platform using OpenTelemetry and Grafana solutions. They share insights on their three-year strategy, the importance of unified metrics and logs, and overcoming challenges, from technology transitions to fostering teamwork.