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The Best Open-Source Dashboard Tools for 2025: Expert Guide to Choosing the Right One

Table of Contents In today’s digital operations, dashboards aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re essential. Teams across engineering, product, operations, and business intelligence rely on real-time data visibility to monitor systems, analyze trends, and catch anomalies before they escalate. For many organizations, open-source dashboard tools offer the best combination of flexibility, transparency, and cost-efficiency.

From Logs to Metrics Part 1: Building an Open-Source Logs-to-Graphite Pipeline

Monitoring doesn't always need to be complex. In this guide, we'll show you how to turn raw logs into usable metrics using a lightweight open-source setup with no ELK stack and no heavy lifting. We'll use Loki, Python, and Telegraf to convert logs into Graphite metrics you can easily monitor or alert on. This is perfect for system admins, DevOps beginners, or anyone curious about building more innovative monitoring pipelines from scratch.

Coredump #007: AI, Open Source, & the Future of Embedded Development

In today's Coredump Session, we dive into a wide-ranging conversation about the intersection of AI, open source, and embedded systems with the teams from Memfault and Goliath. From the evolution of AI at the edge to the emerging role of large language models (LLMs) in firmware development, the panel explores where innovation is happening today — and where expectations still outpace reality. Listen in as they untangle the practical, the possible, and the hype shaping the future of IoT devices.

Canonical's open source portfolio

Canonical open source, explained in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. You know Canonical as the company behind Ubuntu. Today, we help you expand the Ubuntu philosophy to every layer of your stack with modular open source solutions - from infrastructure to apps. Start with Ubuntu, take control of your infrastructure, modernize your applications, get an optimized stack for data and AI, and deploy smart things at the edge - all on trusted open source.

Apache Cassandra Monitoring: Tools, Challenges & Best Practices

When your distributed database architecture scales to handle massive workloads, keeping tabs on everything becomes critical and complex. With its masterless architecture and linear scalability, Apache Cassandra powers mission-critical applications across industries—but without proper monitoring, you might as well be flying blind through a storm.

SONiC: The open source network operating system for modern data centers

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source network operating system that has revolutionized data center networking. Originating as a Microsoft-led initiative in the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2016, SONiC has rapidly gained traction among hyperscalers and switch hardware vendors, including Broadcom, Cisco, and NVIDIA. By building its services using containerized microservices, SONiC brings flexibility, scalability, and modularity to network infrastructure.

Maximizing Innovation: Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

In today’s world, cloud technologies are essential for keeping up with the accelerating pace of business and changing market dynamics. However, innovation cannot be funded by a blank check; cloud cost optimization is essential to finding efficiency while innovating. Hear from Aiven about the principles of optimizing managed databases and streaming services and techniques for bringing cloud costs down while using third-party vendors.

Open source enterprise application security remains a challenge despite greater patching efforts, IDC research reveals

The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud indicates that 36% of organizations adopt open source to improve development velocity, and 7 in 10 organizations see open source as extremely important to run mission critical workloads. However as open source adoption grows, organizations face increasing difficulty in securing and maintaining their software supply chains.

7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that You Can Consider in 2025

Open-source log management tools provide cost-effective, customizable approaches for collecting and analyzing log data. They help teams quickly identify patterns, spot anomalies, and resolve issues. With numerous options available, it's important to understand their strengths and limitations. This article examines the top open-source log management tools in 2025, focusing on their capabilities, performance, and best use cases.