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Grafana Loki 3.4: Standardized storage config, sizing guidance, and Promtail merging into Alloy

Feb 13, 2025 By Julie Stickler In Grafana
The Grafana Loki 3.4 release is here, and it brings a fresh wave of enhancements aimed at standardizing Loki’s object storage, helping you right size your instance, and improving the ability to ingest out-of-order logs. Loki 3.4 also represents the official merging of Promtail into Grafana Alloy as part of our efforts to give our users a single telemetry collector. There’s a lot to go over, so let’s dive in.
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How to cut costs for metrics and logs: a guide to lowering expenses in Grafana Cloud

Feb 12, 2025 By Daniel Bailey In Grafana
Observability is essential to maintaining system reliability, but as your infrastructure scales, so do your costs. Between metrics and logs, managing telemetry data can become overwhelming and expensive. Grafana Cloud is already designed to be cost-efficient, but scaling can still present cost challenges. The good news? Grafana provides robust tools and best practices to help optimize observability data and rein in spending.
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Getting started with SCOM dashboards

Feb 12, 2025 By Sameer Mhaisekar In Squared Up
In this blog, we will use the SquaredUp Cloud SCOM plugin to connect to our SCOM Management Group and take a look at what we get out of the box. SquaredUp Cloud is a data visualization tool that can connect to 70+ data sources – perfect for bringing varied data together in a single pane of glass. Display your SCOM data alongside other important metrics.
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Monitor Google Cloud: simplify and centralize your cloud provider observability with Grafana Cloud

Feb 11, 2025 By Vasil Kaftandzhiev In Grafana
Organizations increasingly rely on Google Cloud to power critical parts of their businesses, but managing those environments often involves navigating a labyrinth of disparate data, tools, and processes. We built Google Cloud Observability in Grafana Cloud to reduce the complexity and confusion by providing a unified, scalable solution designed to simplify monitoring, enhance visibility, and optimize costs.
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Grafana Beyla 2.0: distributed traces, scalable Kubernetes deployments, and more

Feb 10, 2025 By Nikola Grcevski In Grafana
In November 2023, we released Grafana Beyla 1.0, the first major milestone in our pursuit of zero-code (and zero-effort) eBPF instrumentation. We delivered a way — through a single command-line — to automatically instrument any application supporting HTTP/gRPC protocols, as well as provide basic network packet flow information.
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From Datadog to Grafana Cloud: Why companies migrate and how it changes business for the better

Feb 10, 2025 By Michelle Tan In Grafana
“Impossibly expensive.”“Generic database metrics.”“Exceeding limits.”“No transparency.” These are the words our customers use to explain why they looked for a Datadog alternative and migrated onto Grafana Labs’ observability solutions. Grafana Cloud provided the scalability that LexisNexis Risk Solutions needed to migrate acquired companies into a unified observability platform. “We’ve had migrations from Datadog.
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Observe Your Google Cloud Infrastructure | Demo: New Grafana Cloud Application | Grafana Labs

Feb 10, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Want to monitor your Google Cloud infrastructure more effectively? Join Vasil Kaftandzhiev as he introduces Grafana Cloud’s new application designed specifically for Google Cloud observability. In this video, you'll discover how to: Optimize and troubleshoot your Google Cloud services Leverage out-of-the-box dashboards with key metrics and thresholds Set up comprehensive alerting for real-time incident response Streamline log management with an all-in-one logs view for faster root cause analysis Configure logs and metrics effortlessly using Grafana Alloy.
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How to visualize user journeys with Site24x7 to spot opportunities to improve the UX

Feb 10, 2025 By Ramkumar Ramaswamy In Site24x7
Before judging anyone, walk a mile in their shoes. This is a great idiom that emphasizes the importance of experiencing what your customers experience when you offer a service. With empathy, IT product owners can ensure that their operations take into account user journeys to be responsive and responsible.
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