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The lowdown on Loki for log aggregation: 5 demos you don't want to miss

Looking to get started with log aggregation? Or perhaps take your logging game to a whole new, more advanced level? You’ve come to the right place. Grafana Loki is a key component of Grafana Labs’ open and composable Grafana LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics).

Rein in spending with Kubernetes cost monitoring in Grafana Cloud

As your Kubernetes infrastructure — and your business — grows, so too does the headache of managing your stack. And since controlling costs is crucial for your organization’s well-being, you need visibility into your complex system to ensure you’re spending your money wisely. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Kubernetes cost monitoring as a new feature in Grafana Cloud.

How to monitor an Apache CouchDB cluster with Grafana Cloud

We’re excited to introduce a dedicated Grafana Cloud integration for Apache CouchDB, a NoSQL document database that stores data in a JSON-based document format. Known for its scalability, availability, and easy replication of data across multiple servers, Apache CouchDB comes with a whole host of features designed to make it easy to run resilient distributed systems, with built-in bi-direcitonal replication allowing for simple replication across multiple servers and data centers.

New in Grafana 10: Securely monitor and query network-secured data sources from Grafana Cloud

Grafana is designed to visualize data in beautiful dashboards, no matter where the information lives. However, if you are considering the hosted Grafana Cloud observability stack for visualizing your data, you might run into a roadblock: network security. The problem is that some data sources, like MySQL databases or Elasticsearch clusters, are hosted within private networks.

How to observe your TensorFlow Serving instances with Grafana Cloud

The world of AI and machine learning has evolved at an accelerated pace these past few years, and the advent of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion has brought a lot of additional attention to the topic. Being aware of this, Grafana Labs prepared an integration for monitoring one of the most used machine learning model servers available: TensorFlow Serving. TensorFlow Serving is an open source, flexible serving system built to support the use of machine learning models at scale.

How many metrics? A guide to estimating the size of your system in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform, is billed based on usage. A common question we get is: “How much will it cost to monitor N servers?” Well, the recently expanded Grafana Cloud Free tier includes up to 10,000 active series. To help you understand what that translates to in terms of time series requirements, here’s a rough guide to estimating what you’ll need.

Celebrating Grafana 10: Torkel's top 10 moments from a decade of dashboarding

Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard will never forget the very first GrafanaCON in 2015, when he shared some big news with the audience gathered in New York City. “I’ll always remember standing on stage and announcing that we just reached 12,000 instances and being super proud because it was just a couple of months after we started tracking these numbers,” says Torkel, who also launched Grafana Labs with co-founders Raj Dutt and Anthony Woods in 2014.

GrafanaCON 2023 Day 2 Recap: A Grafana 10 deep-dive, Grafana Tempo and Mimir updates, home automation, and more

Today marked the second full day of GrafanaCON 2023, and all the excitement from yesterday certainly did not wane. Attendees and speakers alike continued to buzz about the Grafana 10 release — and so much more.

Grafana 10 release: New panels, Grafana as code updates, data correlations, and more

We are beyond thrilled to announce the arrival of Grafana 10, which was highlighted during the GrafanaCON 2023 keynote. The latest major release of the popular visualization and monitoring tool, which now has more than 20 million users around the world, is not just about introducing new features. Grafana 10 is also about enabling you to achieve more — more analysis, more collaboration, more insights, more efficiency and, of course, more beautiful dashboards. Grafana: download now!

GrafanaCON 2023: A guide to all the big announcements from Grafana Labs

GrafanaCON 2023 marks a huge milestone: It’s the official release of Grafana 10 and also the kick-off to celebrating a decade of dashboarding with Grafana. The GrafanaCON 2023 opening keynote, delivered by Grafana Labs co-founders Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Wood, streamed live on June 13 from Stockholm, Sweden, the birthplace of Grafana.