Grafana is a powerful open-source platform for monitoring and observability, but what truly makes it shine are its plugins. For technology engineers looking to expand Grafana's capabilities, plugins are the way to go. In this post, we'll dive into the world of Grafana plugins and offer some unique tips to get the most out of them.

While Grafana is one of the better known names in the industry, Coralogix offers a full-stack observability platform. Despite the popularity of the Grafana brand, the cloud based solution lacks in some key areas. This article will go over the differences between Coralogix and Grafana Cloud, from features, customer support, pricing and more.

OK, so you’ve decided to move from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch. Maybe our comparison helped you decide and maybe you’ve checked our guide on how to perform the migration. But how do you know if your new OpenSearch performs as well and functions as correctly as the existing Elasticsearch? Even when comparing old with new versions, upgrades don’t always translate into better performance.

What are the current options to migrate from OpenSearch to Elasticsearch®? OpenSearch is a fork of Elasticsearch 7.10 that has diverged quite a bit from itself lately, resulting in a different set of features and also different performance, as this benchmark shows (hint: it’s currently much slower than Elasticsearch).

Metrics are closely associated with cloud infrastructure monitoring or application performance monitoring – we monitor metrics like infrastructure CPU and request latency to understand how our services are responding to changes in the system, which is a good way to surface new production issues. As many teams transition to observability, collecting metric data isn’t enough.