Introducing InfluxDB 2.0
Paul Dix, CTO and co-founder of InfluxData gives an overview and demo of the new InfluxDB 2.0 at GrafanaCon LA 2019.
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Everything You Need to Know About the OSS Licensing War, Part 1.
The emergence of a new breed of commercial open source company, challenging the dominance of public cloud, has set off a licensing war that calls into question the very meaning of open source. We debated this topic at last month’s GrafanaCon Los Angeles, where I participated in a spirited panel. Since then, the battle lines have been redrawn. Last week, Amazon announced its Open Distribution for Elasticsearch. And MongoDB Inc. abandoned OSI approval of its new SSPL license.
GrafanaCon L.A. Recap: Grafana 6.0, LGTM, and More!
The rest of the city may still have been in a post-Oscars haze, but over 350 monitoring mavens gathered in downtown L.A. bright and early on Feb. 25 to kick off GrafanaCon 2019. The next two days were filled with 40+ talks, including Grafana end user stories from companies like Bloomberg and Tinder.
timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 81
TimeShift is back after a few weeks away with a lot of updates to share. Nearly all of the Videos and presentations from GrafanaCon LA are available, so please check them out and let us know what you think. Also, if you hadn’t heard, Grafana v6.0 stable was recently released which has lots of new features and enhancements. Download the latest version v6.0.1 and read about the highlights below.
How New City Energy Is Supporting Sustainability with Grafana
Grafana isn’t just being used for monitoring applications. Andrew Rodgers, Senior Systems Architect at New City Energy, spoke in Amsterdam at GrafanaCon EU 2018 about how his organization is using Grafana to measure energy usage in municipal buildings in Washington D.C. for the Department of General Services (DGS).
The Explore Workflow and Troubleshooting with Loki
Grafana 6.0 adds a new way to explore ad-hoc queries and data. You can now view both metric and log data in Grafana.
Today's Challenges of Big Infra Monitoring
Applications are complex systems. Their many moving parts, component and dependency services may span any number of infrastructure technologies and platforms from bare metal to serverless.
VictorOps: Take Action with Observability and Context
Melanie Postma talks about solving problems as they occur, understanding the impact of deploys on your infrastructure, reducing MTTM/MTTR and creating an environment of continuous improvement.
Why InfluxDB is Building Flux, a new scripting and query language
The new Flux (formerly IFQL) super-charges queries both for analytics and data science. Get an overview of the language features as well as the moving parts for a working deployment. Grafana shares Flux’s passion for analytics and data science. For that reason, they are very excited to showcase the new Flux support within Grafana, and a couple of common analytics use cases to get the most out of your data.
How Not to Fail at Data Visualization
Grafana, with its huge amount of data sources and plugins, has all the capabilities one needs to create accurate graphs. Although creating dashboards is easy, interpreting each panel is hard if it’s not correctly visualised. Misinterpretation is one of the most common causes of wrong conclusions that make us hunt ghosts during debugging sessions. There are many common pitfalls which we can avoid if we follow some rules.