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Add context to your dashboards from SQL data sources New SQL tile: Line graph

Monitoring information that matters to you will often come from disparate sources – whether you are a server engineer, a SQL database administrator, or an application owner wanting a 360 view of your applications’ health. For example, you may want to visualise your server metrics from SCOM alongside historical trends from the SCOM Data Warehouse.

Introducing composite charts and Metric Correlations

We're really excited about supercharging Netdata Cloud's infrastructure monitoring experience with composite charts. These charts look just like the ones you're familiar with, but feature real-time, per-second aggregated metrics from any number of distributed nodes from across your infrastructure. You can still pan, zoom, and highlight to your heart's content while also changing the aggregate function, filtering nodes, or jumping straight into single-node dashboards for root cause analysis.

ObservabilityCON Day 4 recap: a panel discussion on observability (and its future), the benefits of Chaos Engineering, and an observability demo showcase

Over the past four days, Grafana Labs' ObservabilityCON 2020 brought together the Grafana community for talks dedicated to observability. We hope you enjoyed all of the sessions, which are available on demand now. (Link to them from the schedule on the event page). The conference wrapped up with predictions and advice from observability experts, lessons in failure, and Grafana Labs team members showcasing ways Grafana and other tools fit into an observability workflow.

Infrastructure monitoring consolidation for achieving agile IT management

Managing large-scale deployments efficiently and resolving issues in a timely manner can be an easy task. What you need is a reliable and agile set of infrastructure monitoring tools for your enterprise IT infrastructure that possesses all the needed features for simple and stress-free management.

Black Friday is here! Would you like your eCommerce to survive it? Monitor it!

If you are reading this article, we assume it is because you have an eCommerce, a digital business you have put all your effort in (and all your money). Or maybe you’re a service provider offering services to eCommerce clients. Black Friday is coming! The official day of going crazy shopping and consuming, when Christmas shopping season is inaugurated and many retail stores and department stores take the chance to celebrate a day of sales that consumers have engraved on their shopping calendar.

Introducing etrace - a multi-purpose application profiling tool

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues without diving into the source code. To this end, we wrote an app-tracing tool called etrace, designed to detect performance bottlenecks and runtime issues in snaps.