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Dashboard Stories: A unified view of NSW snowboarding conditions

Adam Hewins, Senior Operational Support Engineer, presents this cool snowboarding conditions dashboard built in SquaredUp using the WebAPI plugin. As a long-time snowboarder, this dashboard was built so Adam can see at-a-glance the weather and trail conditions in Perisher, NSW. Learn how Adam used the WebAPI plugin to effortlessly surface data for snowfall, snowdepth, temperature and even Perisher live camera imagery in one centralized dashboard.

New in Grafana 10: Grafana Scenes for building dynamic dashboarding experiences

With Grafana 10, the latest major release of our data visualization platform, we wanted to explore new ways to empower our developer community. Case in point: Grafana Scenes, a new frontend library that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within their Grafana application plugins.

Using Helm Dashboard and Intents-Based Access Control for Pain-Free Network Segmentation

Helm Dashboard is an open-source project which graphically shows installed Helm charts, revisions, and changes to their Kubernetes resources. The intents operator is an open-source Kubernetes operator which makes it possible to roll out network policies in a Kubernetes cluster, chart by chart, and gradually achieve zero trust or network segmentation.

Grafana Tempo 2.2 release: TraceQL structural operators are here!

Get excited about Grafana Tempo 2.2! Not only is this release on time, but it is also chock full of TraceQL features and performance improvements. I was honestly a little shocked by how much we have accomplished in the last three months when summarizing the changelog.

Grafana Cloud Free: Actual stories about our 'actually useful' hosted free tier

It’s no secret that anyone can download our open source software and run it, because — once more with feeling — open source is in our DNA. But it can be hard to set up and configure a whole stack from scratch, which is why we offer Grafana Cloud as a fully managed observability platform.

Connecting Prometheus and Grafana

Using Prometheus and Grafana together is a great combination of tools for monitoring an infrastructure. In this article, we will discuss how Prometheus can be connected with Grafana and what makes Prometheus different from the rest of the tools in the market. MetricFire's product, Hosted Graphite, runs Graphite (a Prometheus alternative) with Grafana dashboards for you so you can have the reliability and ease of use that is hard to get while doing it in-house.

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5 ELK Stack Pros and Cons

Is your organization currently relying on an ELK cluster for log analytics in the cloud? While the ELK stack delivers on its major promises, it isn't the only search and analytics engine - and may not even be your best option for log management. As cloud data volumes grow, ELK monitoring can become too costly and complex to manage. Fast-growing organizations should consider innovative alternatives offering better performance at scale, superior cost economics, reduced complexity and enhanced data access in the cloud.

How to monitor your feature flags with LaunchDarkly and Grafana

Feature management is an emerging set of tools and techniques for developing and testing software based around feature flags. It’s intended to increase productivity and performance, as well as improve software quality. Of course, you’ll also need to keep tabs on all those feature flags, so it only makes sense to pair feature management with observability for a more holistic view of your software development cycles.

How Grafana query caching and Amazon Timestream make dashboards faster and more cost-effective

This blog post was co-authored by Igor Shvartser, Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon Timestream, and Michael Mandrus, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs. Grafana Labs Senior Software Engineers Stephanie Hingtgen and Kevin Minehart also helped with the content.