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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Multi-Cloud - Rise of Hybrid Networks and the Need to Monitor & Secure Them

This model has benefits, but at the same time, it introduces complexity for the IT teams tasked with monitoring and securing IT systems. Existing network monitoring technologies that system admins use with on-premise infrastructure are typically not expandable to include infrastructure and services running on public cloud platforms. This is a problem as you cannot manage and secure what you cannot see.

Kubernetes Monitoring - Why It Matters

Kubernetes was designed by Google in 2014 and has been maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since 2015. It has become the de facto standard for running containers in production at scale, including in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Kubernetes is a modern framework for managing and scaling containerized applications. There have been over 2.8 million contributions to Kubernetes made by companies.

Retain logs longer without breaking the bank: Introducing Grafana Cloud Logs Export

Late last year we announced an early access program for Grafana Cloud Logs Export, a feature that allows users to easily export logs from Grafana Cloud to their own cloud-based object storage for long-term archival purposes. We are pleased to announce that the feature is now in public preview for all Grafana Cloud users, including those on the Free tier!

Case Study: Building an Operations Dashboard

Picture a simple E-commerce platform with the following components, each generating logs and metrics. Imagine now the on-call Engineer responsible for this platform, feet up on a Sunday morning watching The Lord of The Rings with a coffee, when suddenly the on-call phone starts to ring! Oh no! It’s a customer phoning, and they report that sometimes, maybe a tenth of the time, the web front end is returning a generic error as they try to complete a workflow.

Grafana Agent v0.34 release: Extended Kubernetes monitoring, support for HashiCorp Vault, and more

Grafana Agent v0.34 is now available! The v0.34 release includes features for remote secrets, better Kubernetes integration, and above all, more community involvement. The Grafana Agent team is also excited to continue driving growth around Grafana Agent Flow, a configuration mode that makes Grafana Agent easier and more powerful to run.