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Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Meerkat - a new Icinga Dashboarding tool by Dave Kempe

Meerkat is an Open Source dashboarding tool, written in Go and javascript. It allow users to drag and drop Icinga API objects onto a background, plays sounds and even embed videos. Dave will give a tour of its features and a guide on setup and usage, with real-world examples.

How to deploy Grafana Enterprise Metrics on Red Hat OpenShift

Here at Grafana Labs, we’re always looking for ways to provide our customers with a choice of platforms where they can run Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM). As part of that mission, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Red Hat OpenShift 4.x support to GEM. GEM, as you may know, is a leading enterprise metrics solution.

How activist engineers use Grafana Cloud to improve global air quality

With climate change and other environmental factors causing pollution rates and ground-level Ozone levels to climb, poor air quality is an increasingly growing global problem. In fact, fossil air pollution is responsible for 1 out of 5 deaths worldwide, according to a 2021 study conducted by Harvard University.

Grafana Alerting video: How to create alerts in Grafana 9

With the Grafana 9.0 release, we rolled out the new and improved Grafana Alerting experience, which is now the default alerting system across all of our products. Along with introducing significant improvements to Grafana Alerting based on community feedback and more robust alerting documentation to guide our users, we also created easy-to-follow video tutorials to help you get started with creating alerts.

3 reasons why reporting SLOs at scale is hard

I figure you’re doing okay with SquaredUp. It still works for you. Maybe you feel there are a couple of things that could be improved, but it’s not a big deal. So you’ve not upgraded yet. And frankly, because it all works fine and is still doing its job, you haven’t kept up to date on all the latest features rolled out in the SquaredUp updates. But…you’re missing out – on a lot.

How Grafana Mimir helped Pipedrive overcome Prometheus scalability limits

Karl-Martin Karlson has been working on Pipedrive’s observability team for more than four years, implementing and supporting several observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, and New Relic. In sales, as in life, you can’t control your results — but you can control your actions. With that in mind, a team of sales professionals set out in 2010 to build a customer relationship management (CRM) tool that helps users visualize their sales processes and get more done.

AppSignal for Ruby Gem 3.1: MRI VM Magic Dashboard

We're very excited to release AppSignal for Ruby gem 3.1, which adds a Magic Dashboard for MRI VM stats. By upgrading to the latest Ruby gem, you'll automatically get this dashboard created in AppSignal as soon as data from the new probe starts flowing in. Here's what you'll see: Magic Dashboards give people amazing insights into applications with zero setup. They work automagically to give your team performance insights into gems like Puma, Sidekiq, ActiveJob, ActionMailer, and others.

Introducing instant Kubernetes logging with Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana are a trio of technologies that have transformed cloud native development. However, despite how powerful these three technologies are, developers still face gaps in the process of implementing a mature Kubernetes environment.

Grafana Labs founders on the future of observability and how to scale an open source company

“Overwhelming.” It was the only word Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt could use to describe how it felt to look out at the sea of more than 600 Grafanistas gathered together in Whistler, British Columbia, for the first company-wide employee event in two years.