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'The Story of Grafana' documentary: From one developer's dream to 20 million users worldwide

On Dec. 5, 2013, Torkel Ödegaard made the first commit in GitHub for a personal project that would become Grafana. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Torkel launched Grafana, growing from a small man with a big dream to becoming the most popular data visualization software in the world,” says Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt. “The Story of Grafana” chronicles that meteoric journey.

How to Build Dashboards

Reporting and analytics dashboards provide enhanced visibility into your data and the ability to view your most critical metrics via a single source of truth. By using dashboards, your team can easily highlight issues or areas of concern and promptly begin addressing them utilizing the real-time data that a dashboard provides. As well as this they can be utilized to drive data-driven decisions for your organization, enabling greater accuracy for decision-making to drive growth.

Introducing Grafana 10.3

Grafana 10.3 is here! From improving your ability to create and navigate complex canvas panels to monitoring via anonymous access control, this release is all about enhancing efficiency and clarity in your observability journey. In this video, learn more about: Canvas Pan and Zoom Improved Tooltips Metric Analysis Alerting enhancements Multi-stack data sources Anonymous access control Stay with us through this playlist to delve deeper into each addition and maximize your Grafana 10.3 experience.

Grafana vs Splunk - Key Features and Differences

Grafana and Splunk are both used as monitoring tools. But while Grafana is majorly used as a data visualization tool, Splunk is an enterprise security and observability platform. Monitoring tools are essential for any business that wants to have visibility into its IT infrastructure. They provide real-time data that can be used to identify and troubleshoot problems. Grafana and Splunk are two of the most popular monitoring tools on the market. So, which one is better for your business?

Exploring logs, metrics, and traces with Grafana - Grafana for Beginners Ep. 7

Exploring logs, metrics and traces for the first time could be an overwhelming experience if you don't know where to start. Join Senior Developer Advocate, Lisa Jung to get the 101 on using the Grafana explore tool and start exploring your data! Best practices.

New in Grafana k6: The latest OSS features in v0.49.0 and static IPs in Grafana Cloud k6

Grafana k6 v0.49.0 has been released, featuring a built-in web dashboard for real-time result visualization and tons of other improvements for Grafana k6 OSS. Here’s a quick overview of the latest features in Grafana k6 v0.49.0, as well as some other exciting updates related to Grafana Cloud k6 and the k6 ecosystem. To learn more about k6 and performance testing, check out the Grafana Labs blog.

Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2024]

Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.

The Story of Grafana | Episode 4: Evolution | Grafana Documentary

From an open source project to an open observability platform, Grafana's evolution continues to drive massive adoption and impactful use cases worldwide. The story of Grafana has only just begun. As we wrap up the Grafana 10th anniversary documentary with this final episode, we'd like to give special thanks to the Grafana community and extended open source ecosystem for all of the contributions and support this past decade. There's so much more to look forward to and we can't wait for what's next!

The Story of Grafana documentary: From dashboards to full-stack observability and beyond

Beehives in backyards. Rocket launches in California. Sourdough starters in mason jars. Shipping containers growing strawberries in Paris. “The stories you can tell from just a graph were really surprising,” says Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard. But not impossible with Grafana, the ubiquitous open source visualization tool that is not just for monitoring applications.