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Members of the Grafana community reflect on their own contributions, the rapid growth of Grafana in the early days, and why community is at the heart of it all.

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Through first-hand accounts and archival footage, the first episode of this documentary revisits the origin story behind the open source project, Grafana, and the cultural revolution around democratizing metrics. Featuring: Torkel Ödegaard (Creator of Grafana, Co-founder and Chief Grafana Officer, Grafana Labs) Carl Bergquist (Principal Engineer, Grafana Labs) Daniel Lee (Former Director of Engineering, Grafana Labs) Raj Dutt (Co-founder and CEO, Grafana Labs) Anthony Woods (Co-founder, Grafana Labs)

Vijay Tolani from Grafana Labs discusses how to achieve unified observability by demonstrating a MongoDB and Grafana Cloud integration that can help you gain better insights into your database's performance.

Distributed tracing is the process of tracking a request or transaction throughout a system, and it's one of the pillars of observability. Grafana Tempo is an open-source tracing backend that uses OpenTelemetry standards, is highly available, and is easily scalable.

Grafana Labs Principal Engineer and Tempo maintainer Joe Elliot talks about how to get started with Tempo, what distributed tracing is, and why TraceQL is cool. He is joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh.

So you have heard that Grafana is a data visualization tool. But do you know how it is used to observe your system as a part of your DevOps practice? Watch episode 3 of the Grafana for Beginners series to find out!

Here's the Grafana Office Hours with Matt Durham and Paul Balogh, where we discuss Grafana Agent Flow mode and how it's better than static mode: https://youtube.com/live/-_SsFLoJvoc

And check out the documentation for flow mode here: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/flow/

Senior Software Engineer Matt Durham shows us how to use flow mode for Grafana Agent. Flow mode is a new and better way to install and configure Grafana Agent than the older "static mode". Among other things, flow mode's modularity makes it easier to build more complex workflows like traditional data pipelines and allows for more use cases than collecting and processing telemetry.

Including AWS service metrics and logs into a single pane of glass helps engineers get holistic visibility into their infrastructure. Analyze 60+ AWS services across your individual accounts and regions without the toil of configuring data and building dashboards from scratch. Learn how to: Sign up for a free Grafana Cloud account today and unlock the potential of distributed tracing in your performance testing workflow.